Perturbatory Narration in Film: Narratological Studies on Deception, Paradox and Empuzzlement

Published by De Gruyter 2018

Perturbatory Narration in Film

Narratological Studies on Deception, Paradox and Empuzzlement

Edited by: Sabine Schlickers and Vera Toro

Volume 59 in the series Narratologia

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110566574

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Perturbatory narration is a heuristic concept, applicable both quantitatively and qualitatively to a specific type of complex narratives for which narratology has not yet found an appropriate classification. This new term refers to complex narrative strategies that produce intentionally disturbing effects such as surprise, confusion, doubt or disappointment ‒ effects that interrupt or suspend immersion in the aesthetic reception process. The initial task, however, is to indicate what narrative conventions are, in fact, questioned, transgressed, or given new life by perturbatory narration. The key to our modeling lies in its combination of individual procedures of narrative strategies hitherto regarded as unrelated. Their interplay has not yet attracted scholarly attention. The essays in this volume present a wide range of contemporary films from Canada, the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Spain, France and Germany. The perturbatory narration concept enables to typify and systematize moments of disruption in fictional texts, combining narrative processes of deception, paradox and/or empuzzlement and to analyse these perturbing narrative strategies in very different filmic texts.

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Sabine Schlickers and Vera Toro, Universität Bremen, Germany.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Table of Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Introduction Sabine Schlickers and Vera Toro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Disturbance and Perturbation in The Tracey Fragments Julia Eckel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	19
A Tire Driving Crazy: Perturbatory Narration in Quentin Dupieux’s Rubber Andreas Veits Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	37
“I am a complex being”: Filmic Puzzles in Julio Medem’s Vacas and Tierra Vera Toro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
Narrative Empuzzlement in Robert Lepage’s Possible Worlds Stephan Brössel Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	73
The Intrafictional Power of Fiction: Betibú by Miguel Cohan Inke Gunia Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	91
Splitting and Splintering of Reality in Jaco Van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody Dominik Orth Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	107
Sensory Representation, Perceptual Spaces, and Perturbatory Distribution of Information in Shane Carruth’s Upstream Color Erwin Feyersinger Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	121
Complex Narration in Film: Reflections on the Interplay of Deception, Distancing and Empuzzlement Matthias Brütsch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	135
“This is still a game, isn’t it?”: On the Confusing Inability to Decide Between the Fictionally Real and Virtual in David Cronenberg’s eXistenZ Heinz-Peter Preusser Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
Deceptive Continuity: Classical Editing and Nonlinear Narrative in Nicolas Roeg’s Bad Timing Jeff Thoss Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
Taking Split Personalities to the Next Level: Perturbatory Narration in Enemy Bernd Leiendecker Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	199
Perturbatory Spaces in David Lynch’s Inland Empire Oliver Schmidt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	209
Perturbatory Narration in Mexican Film: Juegos nocturnos/Nocturnal Games, El agujero negro del sol/The Black Hole of the Sun, and El incidente/The Incident Sabine Schlickers Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	225
Perturbatory Revocation: The Subtractive Cinema of Lisandro Alonso, Bruno Dumont and Béla Tarr Jörg Türschmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	241
About the authors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	257
Films cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	261
Authors cited Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	263

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter
Audience: Scholars interested in Filmnarratology, Film Studies, Narratology, Narrative Studies Research, Transmedial Studies
Pages
- Front matter: 6
- Main content: 265
Illustrations
- Coloured Illustrations: 67
- Tables: 10
Keywords: Perturbatory narration; film narratology; deception; paradox

eBook

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110566574

Hardcover

Published: November 7, 2017
ISBN: 9783110560824