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Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

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  1. Allan Cameron
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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

    • Allan Cameron
    Pages 1-19

  3. The Shape of Narrative Time: Subjective, Schismatic and Modular

    • Allan Cameron
    Pages 20-47

  4. Projecting the Future: Order, Chaos and Modularity

    • Allan Cameron
    Pages 48-78

  5. Navigating Memory: Temporal Anchoring and the Modular Subject

    • Allan Cameron
    Pages 79-112

  6. Articulating History: Archival Aesthetics and the National Narrative

    • Allan Cameron
    Pages 113-139

  7. Deciphering the Present: Simultaneity, Succession and Mediation

    • Allan Cameron
    Pages 140-169

  8. Coda: Playing Games with Cinema

    • Allan Cameron
    Pages 170-184

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 185-211
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About this book

Since 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.

Reviews

'Allan Cameron's delineation of four types of modular narrative (anachronic, forking paths, episodic and split-screen) presents an innovative perspective on contemporary filmmaking practices. In particular, his analyses of 21 Grams , Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and Memento are exemplary.' - Warren Buckland, Oxford Brookes University

About the author

ALLAN CAMERON is a Researcher and Lecturer at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, and Honorary Fellow in Screen Studies at the University of Melbourne.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema

  • Authors: Allan Cameron

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230594197

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London

  • eBook Packages: Palgrave Social & Cultural Studies Collection, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Macmillan Publishers Limited 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-21041-7Published: 11 July 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-30303-8Published: 01 January 2008

  • eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-59419-7Published: 11 July 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 211

  • Topics: Screen Studies, Film History, Media Studies, Industries

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