Since the early 1990s there has been a trend towards narrative complexity within popular cinema. This book examines a number of contemporary films that play overtly with narrative structure, raising questions of chance and destiny, memory and history, simultaneity and the representation of time.
List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Modular Narratives in Contemporary Cinema The Shape of Narrative Time: Subjective, Schismatic and Modular Projecting the Future: Order, Chaos and Modularity Navigating Memory: Temporal Anchoring and the Modular Subject Articulating History: Archival Aesthetics and the National Narrative Deciphering the Present: Simultaneity, Succession and Mediation Coda: Playing Games With Cinema Notes Bibliography Index
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