Impossible Puzzle Films : : A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema / / Miklós Kiss, Steven Willemsen.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Edinburgh University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
• VerfasserIn: Kiss, Miklós,; Willemsen, Steven,
• Place / Publishing House: Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press, , [2022]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 30 B/W illustrations

Using a cognitive film studies framework, this book explores how our minds engage with complex storytellingNarrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how and why do complex movies create perpl...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
• I.1 In this book
• Chapter 1 Contemporary Complex Cinema
• 1.1 Complex conditions: the resurgence of narrative complexity
• 1.2 Complex cinema as brain-candy for the empowered viewer
• 1.3 Narrative taxonomies: simple, complex, puzzle plots
• Chapter 2 Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema
• 2.1 Why an (embodied-)cognitive approach?
• 2.2 Various forms of complexity and their effects on sense-making
• 2.3 A cognitive approach to classifying complexity
• Chapter 3 Narrative Complexity and Dissonant Cognitions
• 3.1 The concept of cognitive dissonance
• 3.2 Cognitions in dissonance: from social psychology to narrative engagement
• 3.3 Types of dissonance in narrative comprehension
• 3.4 Cognitive access to impossible storyworlds: immersed and reflected operations
• 3.5 'Impossibilities' and embodied cognition
• Chapter 4 Taming Dissonance: Cognitive Operations and Interpretive Strategies
• 4.1 Cognitive dissonance versus narrative coherence
• 4.2 Reducing dissonance: interpretation and naturalisation
• 4.3 Coping with dissonance: frame-switches and poetic and aesthetic readings
• 4.4 Frame-switching as hermeneutic play in impossible puzzle films
• Chapter 5 Impossible Puzzle Films: Between Art Cinema and (Post-)Classical Narration
• 5.2 Impossible puzzle films and (post-)classical narration
• Chapter 6 Wallowing in Dissonance: The Attractiveness of Impossible Puzzles
• 6.1 Hermeneutic play and interpretive multiplicity
• 6.2 Orientation, navigation, mapping
• 6.3 Game logic and the fascination in failure
• 6.4 Effort justification
• 6.5 Diegetisation of decoupling
• 6.6 Fascination in infinity
• 6.7 Destabilised ontological certainty
• 6.8. Eudaimonic motivations and intrinsic needs
• References
• Filmography
• Index