The Cinema of Disorientation: Inviting Confusions

Dominic Lash

The Cinema of Disorientation

Inviting Confusions

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Dominic Lash

Publisher:: Edinburgh University Press
Online publication date:: October 2020
Print publication year:: 2020
Online ISBN:: 9781474462792

Subjects:: Film, Film, Media, Mass Communication

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Examines disorientation and confusion, and their theoretical implications, in contemporary narrative film

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Inviting Confusions

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Frontmatter
pp i-iv

Contents
pp v-vi

List of Illustrations
pp vii-viii

Acknowledgements
pp ix-ix

Dedication
pp x-x

Introduction
pp 1-12

Prospectus
pp 13-24

Part 1 - Confusion as Fusion: Metalepsis, Completeness and Coherence
pp 25-26

Chapter 1 - Metalepsis in Film and Its Implications
pp 27-38

Chapter 2 - Genres within Genres within Genres: Nested Narrative and Metalepsis
pp 39-50

Chapter 3 - ‘Disappeared where it’s real hard to disappear’: Three Ways of Getting Lost in INLAND EMPIRE
pp 51-68

Chapter 4 - Achieving Coherence: Diegesis and Death in Holy Motors
pp 69-88

Part 2 - Disorientating Figures and Figures of Disorientation
pp 89-90

Chapter 5 - Figuring (Out) Films: Figuration in Narrative Cinema
pp 91-104

Chapter 6 - Distinguishing the Indistinguishable: Figures of Imperceptibility and Impossibility in Lost Highway and Caché
pp 105-116

Chapter 7 - Homes for Displaced Figures: Pedro Costa’s Colossal Youth
pp 117-132

Chapter 8 - Sink or Swim: Immersing Ourselves in Jean-Luc Godard’s Adieu au langage
pp 133-152

Conclusion: Method-Free Orientation
pp 153-158

Appendix: Colossal Youth Scene Breakdown
pp 159-164

Notes
pp 165-180

Bibliography
pp 181-190

Filmography
pp 191-194

Index
pp 195-198

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