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04728aam a2200661 i 4500 001 94A0A35CF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240403010045 008 220525s2023 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2022008825 020 $a 9780231206594 020 $a 0231206593 020 $a 9780231206587 020 $a 0231206585 035 $a (OCoLC)1320817453 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCF $d YDX $d BDX $d OCLCO $d UKMGB $d W2U $d OCLCL $d VP@ $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS374.D4 $b B67 2023 082 00 $a 813/.087209 $2 23/eng/20220525 100 1 $a Bordwell, David, $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n78094019 $e author. 245 10 $a Perplexing plots : $b popular storytelling and the poetics of murder / $c David Bordwell. 264 1 $a New York : $b Columbia University Press, $c [2023] 300 $a xiii, 491 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 25 cm. 490 1 $a Film and culture series 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 520 $a "Narrative innovation is often thought to be the domain of the avant-garde or the experimental. However, manipulations of viewpoint and timelines and other unconventional techniques, have been part of popular American culture and storytelling since at least the 1940s. How did different forms and styles once regarded as "difficult," become mainstream and familiar to audiences? As David Bordwell demonstrates in Perplexing Plots, popular narratives have balanced innovation and convention to develop its own experimental impulses that both familiarize and surprise the viewer or readers. Bordwell argues that thrillers and detective tales, in particular, have been a major way in which popular culture allowed ambitious storytellers to experiment with narrative. They became a training ground for audiences' development of skills in understanding and enjoying complex fictions. Bordwell traces this history through the works and film adaptations of writers such as Patricia Highsmith, Erle Stanley Gardner, Rex Stout, and Richard Stark. While he focuses on the 1940s as a period when innovative storytelling began to become a permanent feature in popular culture, he also looks back to techniques from over more than a century. He also considers how these techniques have shaped the work of filmmakers from the 1940s on. Examining novels, plays, films, and radio drama. Bordwell shows how the mystery-based plot, usually hinging on a murder, and its variants have enlarged the techniques available to authors and the skill sets of audiences"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories, American $x History and criticism. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102216 650 0 $a American literature $y 20th century $x History and criticism. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2007101049 650 0 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $x History $y 20th century. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008108206 650 0 $a Popular culture $z United States $x History $y 20th century. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008109606 650 0 $a Detective and mystery stories $x Authorship. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008102220 650 0 $a Motion picture authorship. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088030 650 0 $a Motion picture plays $x Technique. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85088066 651 0 $a United States $x Civilization $y 20th century. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85139942 650 6 $a LitteÌrature ameÌricaine $y 20e sieÌcle $x Histoire et critique. 650 6 $a Narration $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a Culture populaire $z EÌtats-Unis $x Histoire $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 6 $a CineÌma $x Art d'eÌcrire. 651 6 $a EÌtats-Unis $x Civilisation $y 20e sieÌcle. 650 7 $a American literature. $2 fast 650 7 $a Civilization. $2 fast 650 7 $a Detective and mystery stories, American. $2 fast 650 7 $a Detective and mystery stories $x Authorship. $2 fast 650 7 $a Motion picture authorship. $2 fast 650 7 $a Motion picture plays $x Technique. $2 fast 650 7 $a Narration (Rhetoric) $2 fast 650 7 $a Popular culture. $2 fast 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast 648 7 $a 1900-1999 $2 fast 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411635 655 7 $a History. $2 fast $0 https://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 776 08 $i ebook version : $z 9780231556552 830 0 $a Film and culture. $0 https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n92059833 941 $a 1 952 $l USUX851 $d 20240403012144.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=94A0A35CF17F11EE82DF7F7D41ECA4DB 994 $a 92 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search