Running and Clicking : Future Narratives in Film.
Title:
Running and Clicking : Future Narratives in Film.
Author:
Schenk, Sabine.
ISBN:
9783110272437
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (233 pages)
Series:
Narrating Futures
Contents:
Acknowledgments -- Preface -- 1 Concepts and Methodology -- 1.1 The Future in 'Future Narratives' -- 1.1.1 'No Future' - Past Narratives -- 1.1.2 Mapping the Future -- 1.2 From 'Running' to 'Clicking' -- 2 'Running' - FNs on Film -- 2.1 "Cinema is memory, it's always part" - or is it? -- 2.2 'Film Futures' and Mind-Games in Movies -- 2.3 'Running' -- 2.3.1 Chance and Contingency in Tykwer's Lola Rennt -- 2.3.2 Kieślowski's Blind Chance - or 'Take It Easy, Lola!' -- 2.3.3 Artificiality and Complexity in Resnais' Smoking / No Smoking -- 2.3.4 Parallel Streaming: Howitt's Sliding Doors -- 2.3.5 The Big Crunch: Van Dormael's Mr. Nobody -- 2.3.6 Game Over? - Jones' Source Code -- 2.4 'Running': The Recipient as Viewer -- 3 'Running' and 'Clicking' -- 3.1 Beyond the Film Reel -- 3.1.1 DVD: Recipient as 'Viewser' -- 3.1.2 Television and Transmedia -- 3.1.2.1 FNs in TV Serials -- 3.1.2.2 'Reality TV' -- 3.1.2.3 Is the Future LOST, Dina Foxx? -- 3.2 Hybrid FNs Between 'Running' and 'Clicking' -- 4 'Clicking' - FNs in New Media -- 4.1 'Movie Game' vs 'Interactive Film' -- 4.1.1 Heavy Rain as Movie Game -- 4.1.2 FNs and the Database: Korsakow Films and 'Hypernarrative Interactive Cinema' -- 4.2 'Clicking': FNs and the User -- 5 Conclusion: FNs in Film and Their Future -- Works Cited.
Abstract:
This series explores a hitherto unidentified type of narrative: Future Narratives. Future Narratives preserve essential aspects of future time, namely its openness and undecidedness. They do this by operating with 'nodes' as their basic unit - situations that allow for more than one continuation. Future Narratives can be found in print, in film, in video games, in scenarios of world climate change, and in other simulations of future trends. Cutting across all media and genre classifications, this burgeoning corpus still lacks a theory and a poetics. This series offers both - and detailed case studies.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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