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7 Unreliable Narration and Puzzle Films (You Only Live Once, Stage Fright, and The Butterfly Effect)
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Preface vii
- Acknowledgments xiii
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PART 1. THE BASICS
- 1 The Emergence of Narrative, Narration, and Narrative Agents in Early Cinema (The Gay Shoe Clerk) 1
- 2 Narrative Structure in Classical and Contemporary Hollywood (Hitchcock and James Bond) 11
- 3 Narration (Gone Girl, beDevil, and Jurassic Park) 29
- 4 Enunciation and Reflexivity (The Grand Budapest Hotel and Marnie) 47
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PART 2. TYPES OF STORYTELLING
- 5 Feminism, Narrative, Authorship (Gone Girl and Orlando) 65
- 6 Art Cinema Narration (Alice in the Cities and Inland Empire) 81
- 7 Unreliable Narration and Puzzle Films (You Only Live Once, Stage Fright, and The Butterfly Effect) 94
- 8 Videogame Logic (The Fifth Element, Inception, and Source Code) 105
- Coda 117
- Works Cited 121
- Index 129
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- CONTENTS v
- Preface vii
- Acknowledgments xiii
-
PART 1. THE BASICS
- 1 The Emergence of Narrative, Narration, and Narrative Agents in Early Cinema (The Gay Shoe Clerk) 1
- 2 Narrative Structure in Classical and Contemporary Hollywood (Hitchcock and James Bond) 11
- 3 Narration (Gone Girl, beDevil, and Jurassic Park) 29
- 4 Enunciation and Reflexivity (The Grand Budapest Hotel and Marnie) 47
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PART 2. TYPES OF STORYTELLING
- 5 Feminism, Narrative, Authorship (Gone Girl and Orlando) 65
- 6 Art Cinema Narration (Alice in the Cities and Inland Empire) 81
- 7 Unreliable Narration and Puzzle Films (You Only Live Once, Stage Fright, and The Butterfly Effect) 94
- 8 Videogame Logic (The Fifth Element, Inception, and Source Code) 105
- Coda 117
- Works Cited 121
- Index 129