Description
Product ID: | 9781805393146 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | GB |
Title: | Puzzling Stories |
Subtitle: | The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature |
Authors: | Author: Miklos Kiss, Steven Willemsen |
Page Count: | 408 |
Subjects: | Film history, theory or criticism, Film theory & criticism, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Cognitive studies, Literary studies: fiction, novelists & prose writers, Cognitive science |
Description: | Select Guide Rating Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series bring such qualities to the mainstream—but wherein lies the attractiveness of perplexing works of fiction? This collected volume offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields. Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series bring such qualities to the mainstream—but wherein lies the attractiveness of perplexing works of fiction? This collected volume offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields. |
Imprint Name: | Berghahn Books |
Publisher Name: | Berghahn Books |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2024-04-01 |