Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal...
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Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series bring such qualities to the mainstream-but wherein lies the attractiveness of perplexing works of fiction? 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
IntroductionSteven Willemsen and Miklós KissPart I: THE ATTRACTIONS OF COGNITIVE CHALLENGE IN (POST-)CLASSICAL NARRATIVES & GENRE FICTIONChapter 1. Aesthetics and Active Discovery : The Pleasure of Moderate Cognitive Challenge in Mass ArtTodd BerlinerChapter 2. Narration, Implicature, and the Deceptive Puzzle FilmWarren BucklandChapter 3. Cognitive Challenge in Complex Science Fiction: Knowledge, Reason and Threat in Narratives of Time Travel and Extraterrestrial ContactHilary DuffieldChapter 4. Strange Loops and Nonhuman Realities: Complex Narrative Faces the Climate CrisisMarco CaraccioloPart II: MESMERIZED MINDS & BODIES: ART-CINEMA & MODERNIST AESTHETICSChapter 5. The Puzzling Film Environments of Fellini s 8Steffen HvenChapter 6. 2 or 3 Things? Polyphony, Cognitive Challenge and Aesthetic Pleasure in Godard s (Counter) CinemaMaria PoulakiChapter 7. Embodying Fragmentation in Film: The Spatio-temporal Logic of Cinematic ModernismMaarten CoëgnartsChapter 8. The Most Difficult RiddleAndrás Bálint KovácsPart III: NOVEL PLEASURES IN CONTEMPORARY SERIAL TELEVISION: FROM COMPLEXITY TO CONFUSIONChapter 9. Multiform TelevisionMatthew CamporaChapter 10. I Can t Keep Track of Any of It Anymore : Cognitive Challenge and Other Aesthetic Appeals in CommunityJason GendlerChapter 11. How Not to Comprehend Television: Notes on Complexity and ConfusionJason MittellPart IV: READING, VIEWING, ENGAGING: CONCEPTUALIZING THE PLEASURES OF BEING CHALLENGEDChapter 12. Challenges of Enjoying Morally Ambiguous Character Drama: The Dexter CaseEd S. Tan, Monique Timmers, Claire M. Segijn, Suzanna J. Opree, Guus BartholoméChapter 13. The Fascination of Failure: On Predictability, Unpredictability and Postdictability in ArtMarina GrishakovaChapter 14. Expressive Challenge and the Metaphoricity of Literary ReadingDon KuikenChapter 15. Who Likes Complex Films? Personality and Preferences for Narrative ComplexitySteven Willemsen, Katalin Bálint, Frank Hakemulder, Miklós Kiss, Elly Konijn, Kirill FaynIndex
