Puzzle Films
Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema
Warren Buckland
Performing Arts / Film / History & Criticism
Drawing upon the expertise of film scholars from around the world,
Puzzle Films investigates a number of films that sport complex storytelling--from
Memento,
Old Boy, and
Run Lola Run, to the
Infernal Affairs trilogy and
In the Mood for Love.
- Unites American ‘independent’ cinema, the European and International Art film, and certain modes of avant-garde filmmaking on the basis of their shared storytelling complexity
- Draws upon the expertise of film scholars from North America, Britain, China, Poland, Holland, Italy, Greece, New Zealand, and Australia
Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is author of Directed by Steven Spielberg and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, and co-author (with Thomas Elsaesser) of Studying Contemporary American Film.
| Publication Date: |
20 January 2009 |
| Publisher: |
Wiley |
| Imprint: |
Wiley-Blackwell |
| ISBN-13: |
9781405168625 |
| Format: |
Paperback / softback |
| Page Count: |
256 |
| Weight (oz): |
13.44 |