Puzzling Stories: The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature
By
Steven Willemsen (Contributor) Miklos Kiss (Contributor)
Paperback
In Stock
Quantity
Description
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.
About the Author
Steven Willemsen is Assistant Professor in Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen and Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. He is co-author of Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema (with Miklos Kiss, Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
More Details
- Contributor: Steven Willemsen
- Imprint: Berghahn Books
- ISBN13: 9781805393146
- Number of Pages: 408
- Format: Paperback
- Publisher: Berghahn Books
- Release Date: 2024-04-01
- Binding: Paperback / softback
- Biography: Steven Willemsen is Assistant Professor in Arts, Culture and Media at the University of Groningen and Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for Empirical Aesthetics in Frankfurt. He is co-author of Impossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema (with Miklos Kiss, Edinburgh University Press, 2017).
Delivery Options
Home Delivery
Store Delivery
Free Returns
We hope you are delighted with everything you buy from us. However, if you are not, we will refund or replace your order up to 30 days after purchase. Terms and exclusions apply; find out more from our Returns and Refunds Policy.