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Auteur(s) : Bordwell, David (1947-2024)
Titre(s) : Perplexing plots [Texte imprimé] : popular storytelling and the poetics of murder / David Bordwell
Publication : New York : Columbia University Press, 2023
Description matérielle : xiii, 491 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Collection : Film and culture series
Lien à la collection : Film and culture
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"Narrative innovation is often thought to be the domain of the avant-garde or the
experimental. However, manipulations of viewpoint and timelines and other unconventional
techniques, have been part of popular American culture and storytelling since at least
the 1940s. How did different forms and styles once regarded as "difficult," become
mainstream and familiar to audiences? As David Bordwell demonstrates in Perplexing
Plots, popular narratives have balanced innovation and convention to develop its own
experimental impulses that both familiarize and surprise the viewer or readers. Bordwell
argues that thrillers and detective tales, in particular, have been a major way in
which popular culture allowed ambitious storytellers to experiment with narrative.
They became a training ground for audiences' development of skills in understanding
and enjoying complex fictions. Bordwell traces this history through the works and
film adaptations of writers such as Patricia Highsmith, Erle Stanley Gardner, Rex
Stout, and Richard Stark. While he focuses on the 1940s as a period when innovative
storytelling began to become a permanent feature in popular culture, he also looks
back to techniques from over more than a century. He also considers how these techniques
have shaped the work of filmmakers from the 1940s on. Examining novels, plays, films,
and radio drama. Bordwell shows how the mystery-based plot, usually hinging on a murder,
and its variants have enlarged the techniques available to authors and the skill sets
of audiences"
Sujet(s) : Roman policier américain -- 20e siècle
Narration -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Récit filmique -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle
Indice(s) Dewey :
813.087 20905 (23e éd.) = Roman policier américain de langue anglaise - Histoire et critique - 1900-1999
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780231206587. - ISBN 0231206585. - ISBN 9780231206594. - ISBN 0231206593. -
ISBN 9780231556552 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47242479g
Notice n° :
FRBNF47242479
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