Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema by

Description: Impossible Puzzle Films by Steven Willemsen, Mikls Kiss By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Mikls Kiss and Steven Willemsens study on Impossible PuzzleFilms looks into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. FORMAT Hardcover LANGUAGE English CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Narrative 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 perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies, narrative theory and cognitive sciences, Kiss and Wilemsen look into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Analysing the effects that different complex narratives have on viewers, the book addresses how films like Donnie Darko, MulhollandDrive and Primer strategically create complexity and confusion, using the specific category of the impossible puzzle film to examine movies that use baffling paradoxes, impossible loops, and unresolved ambiguities in their stories and storytelling. By looking at how these films play on our minds blind spots, this innovative book explains their viewing effects in terms of the mental state of cognitive dissonance that they evoke. Back Cover Kiss and Willemsens book is an important step forward in the study of cinematic complexity. It offers a thorough analysis of complex storytelling techniques with a special focus on the "impossible puzzle films", reveals the cognitive effects and challenges they evoke, and explores the reasons why viewers find them fascinating.Marina Grishakova, Institute of Cultural Research and Arts, University of TartuNarrative 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 perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies, narrative theory and cognitive sciences, Mikl Flap Kiss and Willemsens book is an important step forward in the study of cinematic complexity. It offers a thorough analysis of complex storytelling techniques with a special focus on the "impossible puzzle films", reveals the cognitive effects and challenges they evoke, and explores the reasons why viewers find them fascinating.Marina Grishakova, Institute of Cultural Research and Arts, University of TartuNarrative 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 perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies, narrative theory and cognitive sciences, Mikl Author Biography Miklós Kiss is Assistant Professor in Film and Media Studies and Steven Willemsen is a PhD candidate and Junior Lecturer in Film Studies, both at the University of Groningen, The Netherlands. Table of Contents Acknowledgements Preface 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 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 2.2.1 Problematizing narrative linearity 2.2.2 Complicating narrative structures and ontologies 2.2.3 Under-stimulation and cognitive overload 2.2.4 Contradictions and unreliabilities 2.3 A cognitive approach to classifying complexity 2.3.1 Deceptive unreliability and the twist film 2.3.2 Disorienting but solvable puzzle films 2.3.3 Impossible puzzle films 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 3.3.1 Narrative incongruities 3.3.2 Narrative impossibilities 3.4 Cognitive access to impossible storyworlds: immersed and reflected operations 3.5 Impossibilities and embodied cognition 3.5.1 Disrupting viewers reliance on image schemas by perceptual impossibility 3.5.2 Disrupting viewers reliance on image schemas by formal impossibility 4. Taming Dissonance: Cognitive Operations and Interpretive Strategies 4.1 Cognitive dissonance versus narrative coherence 4.2. Reducing dissonance: interpretation and naturalization 4.2.1 Foregrounding 4.2.2 Narrating agency and authorship 4.2.3 Artefact emotions and metareflexive appreciation 4.2.4 Interpretation as dissonance reduction 4.3 Coping with dissonance: frame-switches and poetic and aesthetic readings 4.4 Frame-switching as hermeneutic play in impossible puzzle films 4.4.1 Switching between narrative and symbolical readings: Enemy and Mulholland Drive 4.4.2 Cognitive hesitation and the fantastic 5. Impossible Puzzle Films: Between Art-Cinema and (Post-) Classical Narration 5.1 From art-cinema to puzzle films 5.1.1 Art-cinema as a narrative mode 5.1.2 Dissonance in modernist art-cinema 5.1.3 Art-cinema as a cognitive reception frame 5.1.4 Narrative complexity and meaning-making in art-cinema 5.2 Impossible puzzle films and (post-)classical narration 5.2.1 High degree of tellability 5.2.2 Identification with goal-oriented characters 5.2.3 Strong reliance on classical genre elements 5.2.4 Adherence to classical narrative cohesion devices 5.2.5 Inclusion of quasi-rational frames of naturalization 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 Diegetization of decoupling 6.6 Fascination in infinity 6.7 Destabilized ontological certainty 6.8. Eudaimonic motivations and intrinsic needs References Filmography Review Impossible Puzzle Films is a dense, probing, truly enlightening study of a salient trend within world cinema. Kiss and Willemsen offer an enriching perspective on cinemas cognitive and affective power, its capacity to beguile, bewilder, and delight.--Gary Bettinson "The Years Work in Critical and Cultural Theory" Promotional Using a cognitive film studies framework, this book explores how our minds engage with complex storytelling Long Description Narrative 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 perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies, narrative theory and cognitive sciences, Kiss and Wilemsen look into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Analysing the effects that different complex narratives have on viewers, the book addresses how films like Donnie Darko, Mulholland Drive and Primer strategically create complexity and confusion, using the specific category of the impossible puzzle film to examine movies that use baffling paradoxes, impossible loops, and unresolved ambiguities in their stories and storytelling. By looking at how these films play on our minds blind spots, this innovative book explains their viewing effects in terms of the mental state of cognitive dissonance that they evoke. Review Quote "Kiss and Willemsens book is an important step forward in the study of cinematic complexity. It offers a thorough analysis of complex storytelling techniques with a special focus on the impossible puzzle films, reveals the cognitive effects and challenges they evoke and explores the reasons why viewers find them fascinating." -- Professor Marina Grishakova, University of Tartu Promotional "Headline" Using a cognitive film studies framework, this book explores how our minds engage with complex storytelling Description for Reader Using a cognitive film studies framework, this book explores how our minds engage with complex storytelling Narrative 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 perplexity and confusion? How do we engage with these challenges? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies, narrative theory and cognitive sciences, Kiss and Willemsen look into the relation between complex storytelling and the mind. Analysing the effects that different complex narratives have on viewers, the book addresses how films like Donnie Darko , Mulholland Drive or Primer strategically create complexity and confusion, and, by using the specific category of the impossible puzzle film, it examines movies that use baffling paradoxes, impossible loops, and unresolved ambiguities in their stories and storytelling. By looking at how these films play on our minds blind spots, this innovative book explains their viewing effects in terms of the mental state of cognitive dissonance that they evoke. Key Features Analyses the effects of complex narratives on viewers, including the psychological experience of puzzlement and perplexity Explores impossible puzzle films as a specific set of highly complex popular films Introduces cognitive dissonance as a key feature of these films Brings together literary theory, cognitive narratology and film studies Read the introduction and first chapter for free on our website (pdf) Feature Analyses the effects of complex narratives on viewers, including the psychological experience of puzzlement and perplexity Explores impossible puzzle films as a specific set of highly complex popular films Introduces cognitive dissonance as a key feature of these films Brings together literary theory, cognitive narratology and film studies Description for Sales People Narrative complexity is a trend in contemporary cinema. Since the late 1990s there has been a palpable increase in complex storytelling in movies. But how do complex movies create perplexity and confusion? And what makes complex stories so attractive? By blending film studies and cognitive sciences, Mikl Description for Teachers/Educators Suitable for courses in cognitive film studies and maybe film-philosophy Details ISBN1474406726 Publisher Edinburgh University Press Year 2016 ISBN-10 1474406726 ISBN-13 9781474406727 Format Hardcover Short Title IMPOSSIBLE PUZZLE FILMS Language English Media Book Imprint Edinburgh University Press Subtitle A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema Place of Publication Edinburgh Country of Publication United Kingdom Publication Date 2016-12-31 DEWEY 791.43684 Author Mikls Kiss UK Release Date 2016-12-31 NZ Release Date 2016-12-31 Edited by Johanna Spanke Birth 1954 Affiliation Winchester College, UK Position Classics Teacher Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Audience General AU Release Date 2017-03-20 Pages 240 Alternative 9781474431972 Illustrations 30 black and white illustrations We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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