Table of Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents v
3. Introduction 1
4. Disturbance and Perturbation in The Tracey Fragments 19
5. A Tire Driving Crazy: Perturbatory Narration in Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber 37
6. “I am a complex being”: Filmic Puzzles in Julio Medem’s Vacas and Tierra 57
7. Narrative Empuzzlement in Robert Lepage’s Possible Worlds 73
8. The Intrafictional Power of Fiction: Betibú by Miguel Cohan 91
9. Splitting and Splintering of Reality in Jaco Van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody 107
10. Sensory Representation, Perceptual Spaces, and Perturbatory Distribution of Information in Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color 121
11. Complex Narration in Film: Reflections on the Interplay of Deception, Distancing and Empuzzlement 135
12. “This is still a game, isn’t it?”: On the Confusing Inability to Decide Between the Fictionally Real and Virtual in David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ 155
13. Deceptive Continuity: Classical Editing and Nonlinear Narrative in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing 179
14. Taking Split Personalities to the Next Level: Perturbatory Narration in Enemy 199
15. Perturbatory Spaces in David Lynch’s Inland Empire 209
16. Perturbatory Narration in Mexican Film: Juegos nocturnos/Nocturnal Games, El agujero negro del sol/The Black Hole of the Sun, and El incidente/The Incident 225
17. Perturbatory Revocation: The Subtractive Cinema of Lisandro Alonso, Bruno Dumont and Béla Tarr 241
18. About the authors 257
19. Films cited 261
20. Authors cited 263