David Church wrote:
"Not entirely new by any standards, but there has been a growing trend
(perhaps crested by now) of "mindfuck" or unreliable narrative films
since the 1990s."
The 1990s trend in complex films is usually considered to have begun
with Pulp Fiction, and covers American (Lynch's Lost Highway,
Mulholland dr.), films scripted by Charlie Kaufman (Eternal Sunshine of
the Spotless Mind) as well as numerous other films from Europe (Run
Lola Run) and Asia (2046, Hong Sangsoo's films), and so on.
Janet Staiger recently edited a special issue of "Film Criticism" on
complex narratives (volume 31, 1/2, 2006). And I've just finished
editing a book called _Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in
Contemporary Cinema_, to be published next year by Blackwell. So the
films may (possibly) have crested, but scholarship on the phenomenon is
being published.
Warren Buckland
Latest book: "Directed by Steven Spielberg:
Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster"
Editor, New Review of Film and Television Studies:
http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/titles/17400309.asp
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