Hollywood Puzzle Films

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Edited by Warren Buckland

Type

Studies

Subject

Countries > United States

Keywords

american cinema, narrative process, mind-game

Publishing date

2014

Publisher

Routledge

Collection

AFI Film Readers

Language

English

Relative size

Physical desc.

Paperback • 322 pages
6 ¼ x 9 ½ inches (16 x 24 cm)

ISBN

978-0-415-62246-2

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Book Presentation:
From Inception to The Lake House, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in Hollywood Puzzle Films examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like Source Code, The Butterfly Effect, Donnie Darko, Déjà Vu, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.

About the Author:
Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author/editor of nine books, including The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory (with Edward Branigan; Routledge, 2013), Film Theory and Contemporary Hollywood Movies (Routledge, 2009), and Studying Contemporary American Film: A Guide to Movie Analysis (with Thomas Elsaesser; Bloomsbury, 2002). He also edits the New Review of Film and Television Studies.

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