6.5 Diegetisation of decoupling

Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Introduction 1
5. I.1 In this book 3
6. Chapter 1 Contemporary Complex Cinema 8
7. 1.1 Complex conditions: the resurgence of narrative complexity 10
8. 1.2 Complex cinema as brain-candy for the empowered viewer 16
9. 1.3 Narrative taxonomies: simple, complex, puzzle plots 18
10. Chapter 2 Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema 24
11. 2.1 Why an (embodied-)cognitive approach? 28
12. 2.2 Various forms of complexity and their effects on sense-making 37
13. 2.3 A cognitive approach to classifying complexity 51
14. Chapter 3 Narrative Complexity and Dissonant Cognitions 65
15. 3.1 The concept of cognitive dissonance 66
16. 3.2 Cognitions in dissonance: from social psychology to narrative engagement 68
17. 3.3 Types of dissonance in narrative comprehension 71
18. 3.4 Cognitive access to impossible storyworlds: immersed and reflected operations 86
19. 3.5 ‘Impossibilities’ and embodied cognition 91
20. Chapter 4 Taming Dissonance: Cognitive Operations and Interpretive Strategies 104
21. 4.1 Cognitive dissonance versus narrative coherence 107
22. 4.2 Reducing dissonance: interpretation and naturalisation 110
23. 4.3 Coping with dissonance: frame-switches and poetic and aesthetic readings 127
24. 4.4 Frame-switching as hermeneutic play in impossible puzzle films 130
25. Chapter 5 Impossible Puzzle Films: Between Art Cinema and (Post-)Classical Narration 140
26. 5.2 Impossible puzzle films and (post-)classical narration 163
27. Chapter 6 Wallowing in Dissonance: The Attractiveness of Impossible Puzzles 183
28. 6.1 Hermeneutic play and interpretive multiplicity 185
29. 6.2 Orientation, navigation, mapping 189
30. 6.3 Game logic and the fascination in failure 195
31. 6.4 Effort justification 197
32. 6.5 Diegetisation of decoupling 198
33. 6.6 Fascination in infinity 200
34. 6.7 Destabilised ontological certainty 203
35. 6.8. Eudaimonic motivations and intrinsic needs 205
36. References 208
37. Filmography 221
38. Index 224