Modular Narratives in Contemporary CinemaSince the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema, as evidenced by the successes of such films as Pulp Fiction, Memento and Run Lola Run. Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema looks at the way a number of these films play with time and narrative. Allan Cameron shows how this formal play reflects a persistent fascination with questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, and the representation of simultaneous events. |
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Subjective Schismatic | 20 |
Order Chaos and Modularity | 48 |
Temporal Anchoring and | 79 |
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| Title | Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema |
| Author | Allan Cameron |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Palgrave Macmillan, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0230210414, 9780230210417 |
| Length | 232 pages |
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