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The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors: Reflex Action in Fiction and Film

The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors: Reflex Action in Fiction and Film

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Literary CriticismFilm Studies

ISBN10: 1501388789
ISBN13: 9781501388781
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: Apr 7 2022
Pages: 240
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
With its laser-focus on the verbal and visual infrastructure of narrative, The Metanarrative Hall of Mirrors is the first sustained comparative study of how image patterns are tracked in prose and cinema. In film examples ranging from Citizen Kane through Apocalypse Now to Blade Runner 2049, then on to Christopher Nolan's 2020 Tenet, Garrett Stewart follows the shift from celluloid to digital cinema through various narrative manifestations of the image, from freeze-frames to computer-generated special effects. By bringing cinema alongside literature, Stewart discovers a common tendency in contemporary storytelling, in both prose and visual narrative, from the ongoing trend of mind-game films to the often puzzling narrative eccentricities of such different writers as Nicholson Baker and Richard Powers-including the latter's eerie mirroring of reader empathy in his 2021 Bewilderment.

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