Amsterdam University Press eBooks· 2017· Book chapter
Cinema and Narrative Complexity. Embodying the Fabula
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Short summary
This book argues for an 'embodied' approach to understanding complex cinematic narratives, proposing that traditional analysis tools are insufficient for films experimenting with intricate storytelling.
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Key points
- Films from the mid-1990s onwards have increasingly experimented with complex narrative strategies.
- Traditional film analysis tools are inadequate for understanding these complex narratives.
- An 'embodied' reconfiguration of the cinematic experience is proposed as a new analytical framework.
- This framework rethinks core constituents of narrative understanding like cognition, emotion, and affect.
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Abstract
Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento. This book sets those films and others in context with earlier works that tried new narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film. In light of that, Steffen Hven argues for the deployment of an 'embodied' reconfiguration of the cinematic experience, one that allows us to rethink such core constituents of narrative understanding as cognition, emotion, and affect.
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