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This collected volume offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cem\u003e“Puzzle films have often been thought to be marginal and eccentric parts of our media landscape. But they stand revealed in this diverse collection as important prototypes for wide-ranging innovation in cinema and television. These ingenious and lively essays harvest the insights of recent work on puzzling narratives to show that contradiction, anomaly, and impossibility have been central to screen storytelling for decades. From The Philadelphia Story through 8 ½ and the work of Godard, up to Twin Peaks’ hallucinatory third season and other instances of complex TV, the authors show that rigorous reflection on puzzle films can illuminate central questions of narrative construction and reception.”\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e• David Bordwell\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Wisconsin--Madison\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSteven Willemsen and Miklós Kiss\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart I: THE ATTRACTIONS OF COGNITIVE CHALLENGE IN (POST-)CLASSICAL NARRATIVES \u0026amp; GENRE FICTION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 1.\u003c\/strong\u003e Aesthetics and ‘Active Discovery’: The Pleasure of Moderate Cognitive Challenge in Mass Art\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eTodd Berliner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 2.\u003c\/strong\u003e Narration, Implicature, and the Deceptive Puzzle Film\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eWarren Buckland\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 3.\u003c\/strong\u003e Cognitive Challenge in Complex Science Fiction: Knowledge, Reason and Threat in Narratives of Time Travel and Extraterrestrial Contact\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eHilary Duffield\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 4.\u003c\/strong\u003e Strange Loops and Nonhuman Realities: Complex Narrative Faces the Climate Crisis\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarco Caracciolo\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart II: MESMERIZED MINDS \u0026amp; BODIES: ART-CINEMA \u0026amp; MODERNIST AESTHETICS\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 5.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Puzzling Film Environments of Fellini’s \u003cem\u003e8½\u003cbr\u003e \tSteffen Hven\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 6.\u003c\/strong\u003e 2 or 3 Things? Polyphony, Cognitive Challenge and Aesthetic Pleasure in Godard’s (Counter) Cinema\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaria Poulaki\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 7.\u003c\/strong\u003e Embodying Fragmentation in Film: The Spatio-temporal Logic of Cinematic Modernism\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMaarten Coëgnarts\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 8.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Most Difficult Riddle\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eAndrás Bálint Kovács\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart III: NOVEL PLEASURES IN CONTEMPORARY SERIAL TELEVISION: FROM COMPLEXITY TO CONFUSION\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 9.\u003c\/strong\u003e Multiform Television\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMatthew Campora\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 10.\u003c\/strong\u003e ‘I Can’t Keep Track of Any of It Anymore’: Cognitive Challenge and Other Aesthetic Appeals in \u003cem\u003eCommunity\u003cbr\u003e \tJason Gendler\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 11.\u003c\/strong\u003e How Not to Comprehend Television: Notes on Complexity and Confusion\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eJason Mittell\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003ePart IV: READING, VIEWING, ENGAGING: CONCEPTUALIZING THE PLEASURES OF BEING CHALLENGED\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 12.\u003c\/strong\u003e Challenges of Enjoying Morally Ambiguous Character Drama: The \u003cem\u003eDexter\u003c\/em\u003e Case\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eEd S. Tan, Monique Timmers, Claire M. Segijn, Suzanna J. Opree, Guus Bartholomé\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 13.\u003c\/strong\u003e The Fascination of Failure: On Predictability, Unpredictability and Postdictability in Art\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eMarina Grishakova\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 14.\u003c\/strong\u003e Expressive Challenge and the Metaphoricity of Literary Reading\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eDon Kuiken\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \t\u003cstrong\u003eChapter 15.\u003c\/strong\u003e Who Likes Complex Films? Personality and Preferences for Narrative Complexity\u003cbr\u003e \t\u003cem\u003eSteven Willemsen, Katalin Bálint, Frank Hakemulder, Miklós Kiss, Elly Konijn, Kirill Fayn\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e \tIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042747646295,"sku":"9781800735910","price":96.3,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781800735910.jpg?v=1750955451","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/puzzling-stories-the-aesthetic-appeal-of-cognitive-challenge-in-film-television-and-literature-9781800735910","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}