Perplexing plots :: popular storytelling and the poetics of murder /
"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 an...
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| Summary: | "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"-- |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| ISBN: | 9780231556552 0231556551 |
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| contents | Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mass Art as Experimental Storytelling -- Part I -- 1. The Art Novel Meets 1910s Formalism -- 2. Making Confusion Satisfactory: Modernism and Other Mysteries -- 3. Churn and Consolidation: The 1940s and After -- Part II -- 4. The Golden Age Puzzle Plot: The Taste of the Construction -- 5. Before the Fact: The Psychological Thriller -- 6. Dark and Full of Blood: Hard-Boiled Detection -- 7. The 1940s: Mysteries in Crossover Culture -- 8. The 1940s: The Problem of Other Minds, or Just One -- Part III -- 9. The Great Detective Rewritten: Erle Stanley Gardner and Rex Stout -- 10. Viewpoints, Narrow and Expansive: Patricia Highsmith and Ed McBain -- 11. Donald Westlake and the Richard Stark Machine -- 12. Tarantino, Twists, and the Persistence of Puzzles -- 13. Gone Girls: The New Domestic Thriller -- Conclusion: The Power of Limits -- Notes -- Index |
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| spelling | Bordwell, David, author. https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJfRxjDMxmdfVbHwRhdfbd http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78094019 Perplexing plots : popular storytelling and the poetics of murder / David Bordwell. New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] 1 online resource illustrations text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Film and culture series Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter, viewed on February 15, 2023) Includes bibliographical references and index Intro -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Mass Art as Experimental Storytelling -- Part I -- 1. The Art Novel Meets 1910s Formalism -- 2. Making Confusion Satisfactory: Modernism and Other Mysteries -- 3. Churn and Consolidation: The 1940s and After -- Part II -- 4. The Golden Age Puzzle Plot: The Taste of the Construction -- 5. Before the Fact: The Psychological Thriller -- 6. Dark and Full of Blood: Hard-Boiled Detection -- 7. The 1940s: Mysteries in Crossover Culture -- 8. The 1940s: The Problem of Other Minds, or Just One -- Part III -- 9. The Great Detective Rewritten: Erle Stanley Gardner and Rex Stout -- 10. Viewpoints, Narrow and Expansive: Patricia Highsmith and Ed McBain -- 11. Donald Westlake and the Richard Stark Machine -- 12. Tarantino, Twists, and the Persistence of Puzzles -- 13. Gone Girls: The New Domestic Thriller -- Conclusion: The Power of Limits -- Notes -- 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"-- Provided by publisher. Detective and mystery stories, American History and criticism. American literature 20th century History and criticism. Narration (Rhetoric) History 20th century. Popular culture United States History 20th century. Detective and mystery stories Authorship. Motion picture authorship. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088030 Motion picture plays Technique. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088066 United States Civilization 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942 Littérature américaine 20e siècle Histoire et critique. Narration Histoire 20e siècle. Culture populaire États-Unis Histoire 20e siècle. Cinéma Art d'écrire. États-Unis Civilisation 20e siècle. LITERARY CRITICISM / Mystery & Detective bisacsh American literature fast Civilization fast Detective and mystery stories, American fast Detective and mystery stories Authorship fast Motion picture authorship fast Motion picture plays Technique fast Narration (Rhetoric) fast Popular culture fast United States fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJtxgQXMWqmjMjjwXRHgrq 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast History fast Crime films. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2011026177 Literary criticism. lcgft http://id.loc.gov/authorities/genreForms/gf2017026126 Films criminels. rvmgf Critiques littéraires. rvmgf Print version: Bordwell, David Perplexing plots New York : Columbia University Press, [2023] 9780231206587 (DLC) 2022008825 Film and culture. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92059833 |
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