Subjective Realist Cinema From Expressionism to <i>Inception</i> [Hardcover]

Subjective Realist Cinemalooks at the fragmented narratives and multiple realities of a wide range of films that depict subjective experience and employ subjective realist narration, including recent examples such asMulholland Drive,Memento, andEternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. The author proposes that an understanding of the narrative structures of these films, particularly their use of mixed and multiple realities, enhances viewers enjoyment and comprehension of such films, and that such comprehension offers a key to understanding contemporary filmmaking.

Acknowledgements

Introduction

• Three Periods of Narrative Experimentation
• Multiform Narrative
• Subjective Realism

Chapter 1. Complex Narratives

• The New Hollywood and The Smart Film
• New Hollywood Narration
  • Fragmented Narratives
  • Multi-strand Narratives
  • Multiform Narratives
• Brazil
• Puzzle Films

Chapter 2. Two Trajectories of the Cinema of Attractions

• The Narrative Trajectory: Realism and Spectacle
• The Avant-garde Trajectory: Realism and Defamiliarization

Chapter 3. Subjective Realism and Multiform Narrative

• Subjective Realism
• Vertigo
• The Fantastic
• Wild Strawberries

Chapter 4.Mulholland Drive

• Expressionism and the Uncanny
• Three Views
  • As Surrealist or Trance Film
  • As Fragmented Subjective Realist Film
  • As Supernatural Film
• It Is All An Illusion

Chapter 5.Memento

• The Four Strands
• Unreliable Narration
• Disrupted Expectations
• Subjective Realism

Chapter 6.Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind