Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder (Film and Culture Series) - Image 1

£81.04

Columbia University Press Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder (Film and Culture Series)

Name: Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder (Film and Culture Series)
Brand: Columbia University Press
Price: 83.58 GBP
Availability: InStock

Crime

Price History & Forecast

Last 17 days • 17 data points (No recent data available)

Historical

Generating forecast...

Price Distribution

Price distribution over 17 days • 2 price levels

Days at Price

Current Price

Price Analysis

Most common price: £84 (14 days, 82.4%)

Price range: £81 - £84

Price levels: 2 different prices over 17 days

Description

Nominated, 2024 Edgar Allan Poe Award in the category of best critical/biographical, Mystery Writers of America Shortlisted, 2024 Agatha Awards - Best Mystery Nonfiction, Malice Domestic Posthumous Winner - 2023 IFCA Book Prize, International Crime Fiction Association 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 engineering of figures such as Raymond Chandler, Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, Patricia Highsmith, Alfred Hitchcock, Dorothy Sayers, and Quentin Tarantino, and traces how mainstream storytellers and modernist experimenters influenced one another’s work. A sweeping, kaleidoscopic account written in a lively, conversational style, Perplexing Plots offers an ambitious new understanding of how movies, literature, theater, and popular culture have evolved over the past century.

Product Specifications

Brand: Columbia University Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0231206585
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film > Genres > Crime
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 17 January 2023
Listed Since: 09 April 2022

Barcode

No barcode data available

Columbia University Press Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder (Film and Culture Series)

Price History & Forecast

Price Distribution

Price Analysis

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

Altman and After: Multiple Narratives in Film

New Perspectives on Detective Fiction: Mystery Magnified (Routledge Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Literature)

Understanding Fiction

Routledge Inspecting Psychology - Detective Fiction History

The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors: Reflex Action in Fiction and Film

Jagdlied: a Chamber Novel for Narrator, Musicians, Pantomimists, Dancers & Culinary Artists (premium color hardback)

Springer Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

Must Read: Rediscovering American Bestsellers: From Charlotte Temple to The Da Vinci Code

A Companion to Narrative Theory: 54 (Blackwell Companions to Literature and Culture)

Paradigms of Paranoia: The Culture of Conspiracy in Contemporary American Fiction

Darkness Calls: A Critical Investigation of Neo-Noir

Michael Chabon's America: Magical Words, Secret Worlds, and Sacred Spaces (Contemporary American Literature)

The Palgrave Handbook of Affect Studies and Textual Criticism

Noir Fiction and Film: Diversions and Misdirections

Burial Plots in British Detective Fiction (Crime Files)

The Age of Promiscuity: Narrative and Mythological Meme Mutations in Contemporary Cinema and Popular Culture

The Oxford Encyclopedia of Crime, Media, and Popular Culture: 3-volume set

The Rise of True Crime: 20th-Century Murder and American Popular Culture

A Hitchcock Reader

Routledge - Conspiracy, Revolution, and Terrorism Fiction Book

Patterns Plus: A Short Prose Reader with Argumentation

How to Market Your Grief Blog

Laugh Smarter presents The Book of Mysteries

Routledge Inscribed Identities: Life Writing Book