Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema,9780230210417

Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

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ISBN13: 9780230210417
ISBN10: 0230210414
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2008-08-15
Publisher(s): Palgrave Macmillan
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Summary

Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema, as evidenced by the successes of such films as Pulp Fiction , Memento and Run Lola Run . Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema looks at the way a number of these films play with time and narrative. Allan Cameron shows how this formal play reflects a persistent fascination with questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, and the representation of simultaneous events.

Author Biography

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.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrationsp. viii
Acknowledgementsp. ix
Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinemap. 1
The Shape of Narrative Time: Subjective, Schismatic and Modularp. 20
Projecting the Future: Order, Chaos and Modularityp. 48
Navigating Memory: Temporal Anchoring and the Modular Subjectp. 79
Articulating History: Archival Aesthetics and the National Narrativep. 113
Deciphering the Present: Simultaneity, Succession and Mediationp. 140
Coda: Playing Games with Cinemap. 170
Notesp. 185
Bibliographyp. 196
Indexp. 206
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