[ecrea] New Publication: 'Cinema and Narrative Complexity'

My new book "Cinema and Narrative Complexity: Embodying the Fabula" is 
now out as part of the series "Film Culture in Transition" published by 
Amsterdam University Press.

In brief, the book examines a series of 'complex narratives' and argues 
for a revision of film narratology in the light of Deleuzian 
film-philosophy as well as recent phenomenologically-inspired, embodied 
approaches to cognition, neuroscience and the philosophy of mind.

About the book:
Since the mid-1990s, a number of films from international filmmakers 
have experimented with increasingly complicated narrative 
strategies-including such hits as /Run, Lola, Run/, /21 Grams/, and 
Memento. 'Cinema and Narrative Complexity' sets those films and others 
in context with earlier works that tried new narrative approaches, 
including /Stage Fright /and /Hiroshima, Mon Amour/, to show how they 
reveal the limitations of most of our usual tools for analysing film. In 
light of that, Steffen Hven argues for the deployment of an 'embodied' 
reconfiguration of the cinematic experience, one that allows us to 
rethink such core constituents of narrative understanding as cognition, 
emotion, and affect.

For those interested, the introduction can be read here:

https://www.academia.edu/31607609/Hven_Cinema_and_Narrative_Complexity_Amsterdam_UP_Series_Film_Culture_in_Transition_2017

or here:

http://en.aup.nl/download/9789048530250.pdf

More information can be found on the publisher's webpage:

Amsterdam UP:
http://en.aup.nl/books/9789462980778-cinema-and-narrative-complexity.html

University of Chicago Press
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/C/bo26269241.html



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