Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder Tapa dura - 2023

New. Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once regarded as "difficult" become familiar to audiences? In Perplexing Plots, David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. He shows that since the nineteenth century, detective stories and suspense thrillers have allowed ambitious storytellers to experiment with narrative. Tales of crime and mystery became a training ground where audiences learned to appreciate artifice. These genres demand a sophisticated awareness of storytelling conventions: they play games with narrative form and toy with audience expectations. Bordwell examines how writers and directors have pushed, pulled, and collaborated with their audiences to change popular storytelling. He explores the plot… Leer más

Columbia Univ Pr, 2023. Hardcover. New. 488 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.25 inches.

Columbia Univ Pr, 2023. Hardcover. New. 488 pages. 9.75x6.50x1.25 inches.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.