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Hollywood Puzzle Films

Hollywood Puzzle Films in Bloomington, MN

Current price: $210.00
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Hollywood Puzzle Films

Hollywood Puzzle Films in Bloomington, MN

Current price: $210.00
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From
Inception
to
The Lake House
, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in
Hollywood Puzzle Films
examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like
Source Code
,
The Butterfly Effect
Donnie Darko
Déjà Vu
, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.
From
Inception
to
The Lake House
, moviegoers are increasingly flocking to narratologically complex puzzle films. These puzzle movies borrow techniques—like fragmented spatio-temporal reality, time loops, unstable characters with split identities or unreliable narrators—more commonly attributed to art cinema and independent films. The essays in
Hollywood Puzzle Films
examine the appropriation of puzzle film techniques by contemporary Hollywood dramas and blockbusters through questions of narrative, time, and altered realities. Analyzing movies like
Source Code
,
The Butterfly Effect
Donnie Darko
Déjà Vu
, and adaptations of Philip K. Dick, contributors explore the implications of Hollywood's new movie mind games.
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