Perturbatory Narration in Film : Narratological Studies on Deception, Paradox and Empuzzlement.

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Introduction -- Disturbance and Perturbation in The Tracey Fragments -- A Tire Driving Crazy: Perturbatory Narration in Quentin Dupieux's Rubber -- "I am a complex being": Filmic Puzzles in Julio Medem's Vacas and Tierra -- Narrative Empuzzlement in Robert Lepage's Possible Worlds -- The Intrafictional Power of Fiction: Betibú by Miguel Cohan -- Splitting and Splintering of Reality in Jaco Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody -- Sensory Representation, Perceptual Spaces, and Perturbatory Distribution of Information in Shane Carruth's Upstream Color -- Complex Narration in Film: Reflections on the Interplay of Deception, Distancing and Empuzzlement -- "This is still a game, isn't it?": On the Confusing Inability to Decide Between the Fictionally Real and Virtual in David Cronenberg's eXistenZ -- Deceptive Continuity: Classical Editing and Nonlinear Narrative in Nicolas Roeg's Bad Timing -- Taking Split Personalities to the Next Level: Perturbatory Narration in Enemy -- Perturbatory Spaces in David Lynch's Inland Empire -- Perturbatory Narration in Mexican Film: Juegos nocturnos/Nocturnal Games, El agujero negro del sol/The Black Hole of the Sun, and El incidente/The Incident -- Perturbatory Revocation: The Subtractive Cinema of Lisandro Alonso, Bruno Dumont and Béla Tarr -- About the authors -- Films cited -- Authors cited.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.