Perplexing Plots: Popular Storytelling and the Poetics of Murder

by David Bordwell

Book Overview

Narrative innovation is typically seen as the domain of the avant-garde. However, techniques such as nonlinear timelines, multiple points of view, and unreliable narration have long been part of American popular culture. How did forms and styles once regarded as "difficult" become familiar to audiences?

In Perplexing Plots, David Bordwell reveals how crime fiction, plays, and films made unconventional narrative mainstream. He shows...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0231206593
• ISBN13: 9780231206594
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Columbia University Press
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.2"