Puzzling stories : the aesthetic appeal of cognitive challenge in film, television and literature /: the aesthetic appeal of cognitive challenge in film, television and literature. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Steven Willemsen and Miklós Kiss.
• Editors: Willemsen, Steven; (Film teacher), Kiss, Miklós
• Contents: Introduction ; Steven Willemsen and Miklós Kiss Part I: THE ATTRACTIONS OF COGNITIVE CHALLENGE IN (POST-)CLASSICAL NARRATIVES & GENRE FICTION Chapter 1. Aesthetics and ‘Active Discovery’: The Pleasure of Moderate Cognitive Challenge in Mass Art; Todd Berliner Chapter 2. Narration, Implicature, and the Deceptive Puzzle Film; Warren Buckland Chapter 3. Cognitive Challenge in Complex Science Fiction: Knowledge, Reason and Threat in Narratives of Time Travel and Extraterrestrial Contact; Hilary Duffield Chapter 4. Strange Loops and Nonhuman Realities: Complex Narrative Faces the Climate Crisis; Marco Caracciolo Part II: MESMERIZED MINDS & BODIES: ART-CINEMA & MODERNIST AESTHETICS Chapter 5. The Puzzling Film Environments of Fellini’s 8½; Steffen Hven Chapter 6. 2 or 3 Things? Polyphony, Cognitive Challenge and Aesthetic Pleasure in Godard’s (Counter) Cinema; Maria Poulaki Chapter 7. Embodying Fragmentation in Film: The Spatio-temporal Logic of Cinematic Modernism; Maarten Coëgnarts Chapter 8. The Most Difficult Riddle; András Bálint Kovács Part III: NOVEL PLEASURES IN CONTEMPORARY SERIAL TELEVISION: FROM COMPLEXITY TO CONFUSION Chapter 9. Multiform Television; Matthew Campora Chapter 10. ‘I Can’t Keep Track of Any of It Anymore’: Cognitive Challenge and Other Aesthetic Appeals in Community; Jason Gendler Chapter 11. How Not to Comprehend Television: Notes on Complexity and Confusion; Jason Mittell Part IV: READING, VIEWING, ENGAGING: CONCEPTUALIZING THE PLEASURES OF BEING CHALLENGED Chapter 12. Challenges of Enjoying Morally Ambiguous Character Drama: The Dexter Case; Ed S. Tan, Monique Timmers, Claire M. Segijn, Suzanna J. Opree, Guus Bartholomé Chapter 13. The Fascination of Failure: On Predictability, Unpredictability and Postdictability in Art; Marina Grishakova Chapter 14. Expressive Challenge and the Metaphoricity of Literary Reading; Don Kuiken Chapter 15. Who Likes Complex Films? Personality and Preferences for Narrative Complexity; Steven Willemsen, Katalin Bálint, Frank Hakemulder, Miklós Kiss, Elly Konijn, Kirill Fayn Index
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: New York : Berghahn Books
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 808; Narration (Rhetoric) -- Philosophy; Mass media -- Philosophy; Drama -- Technique
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781800735927
• Related ISBNs: 9781800735910
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