Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema

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

Author: Warren Buckland
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 02/01/2009
Pages: 252
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9781405168625
ISBN10: 1405168625
BISAC Categories:
- Performing Arts | Film | History & Criticism

About the Author
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.