Modular Narratives in Contemporary CinemaSince the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, simultaneity and the representation of time. |
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Contents
| 1 | |
Subjective Schismatic and Modular | 20 |
Order Chaos and Modularity | 48 |
Temporal Anchoring and the Modular Subject | 79 |
Archival Aesthetics and the National Narrative | 113 |
Simultaneity Succession and Mediation | 140 |
Playing Games with Cinema | 170 |
Notes | 185 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema |
| Author | A. Cameron |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Springer, 2008 |
| ISBN | 0230594190, 9780230594197 |
| Length | 211 pages |
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