Cameron Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-0-230-59419-7
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 211 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection

Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, simultaneity and the representation of time.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Cameron, A.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema The Shape of Narrative Time: Subjective, Schismatic and Modular Projecting the Future: Order, Chaos and Modularity Navigating Memory: Temporal Anchoring and the Modular Subject Articulating History: Archival Aesthetics and the National Narrative Deciphering the Present: Simultaneity, Succession and Mediation Coda: Playing Games With Cinema Notes Bibliography Index

Über Autor(innen)

ALLAN CAMERON is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and Honorary Fellow in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne.