Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula
Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento. This book sets those films and others in context with earlier works that tried new narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film. In light of that, Steffen Hven argues for the deployment of an 'embodied' reconfiguration of the cinematic experience, one that allows us to rethink such core constituents of narrative understanding as cognition, emotion, and affect.|This book considers films that have experimented with new, increasingly complicated narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film.
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Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula
Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento. This book sets those films and others in context with earlier works that tried new narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film. In light of that, Steffen Hven argues for the deployment of an 'embodied' reconfiguration of the cinematic experience, one that allows us to rethink such core constituents of narrative understanding as cognition, emotion, and affect.|This book considers films that have experimented with new, increasingly complicated narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film.
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Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula

Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula

by Steffen Hven
Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula
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Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula

Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula

by Steffen Hven

Overview

Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative strategies-including such hits as Run, Lola, Run, 21 Grams, and Memento. This book sets those films and others in context with earlier works that tried new narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film. In light of that, Steffen Hven argues for the deployment of an 'embodied' reconfiguration of the cinematic experience, one that allows us to rethink such core constituents of narrative understanding as cognition, emotion, and affect.|This book considers films that have experimented with new, increasingly complicated narrative approaches, including Stage Fright and Hiroshima, Mon Amour, to show how they reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781041176954
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 12/01/2025
Series: Film Culture in Transition
Edition description: 1
Pages: 254
Product dimensions: 6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Steffen Hven is a post-doc at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He has published frequently in the journal 16:9 and has presented papers at numerous international conferences. His research interests include film-philosophy, cognitive film science, 'complex narratives', 'embodied cognition', and (affective) neuroscience.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Cinema in the Interstices Chapter 3: Narrative Ambiguity in the Classical Cinema Chapter 4: Modern(ist) Cinema: Logic of the Encounter Chapter 5: Towards the Embodied Fabula Chapter 6: The Complexity of Complex Narratives Chapter 7: Memento and the Embodied Fabula Chapter 8: Conclusions
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