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New. 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…
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- Title Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder
- Author David Bordwell
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 512
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Columbia University Press
- Date 2023-01-17
- Features Bibliography, Index
- ISBN 9780231206587 / 0231206585
- Weight 2.12 lbs (0.96 kg)
- Dimensions 9.21 x 6.14 x 1.31 in (23.39 x 15.60 x 3.33 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 20th Century
- Library of Congress subjects Detective and mystery stories - Authorship, American literature - 20th century - History
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2022008825
- Dewey Decimal Code 813.087
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