Intro -- Title page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Prospectus -- Part 1 Confusion as Fusion -- CHAPTER 1 Metalepsis in Film and Its Implications -- CHAPTER 2 Genres within Genres within Genres: Nested Narrative and Metalepsis -- CHAPTER 3 'Disappeared where it's real hard to disappear': Three Ways of Getting Lost in INLAND EMPI -- CHAPTER 4 Achieving Coherence: Diegesis and Death in Holy Motors -- Part 2 Disorientating Figures and Figures of Disorientation -- CHAPTER 5 Figuring (Out) Films: Figuration in Narrative Cinema
CHAPTER 6 Distinguishing the Indistinguishable: Figures of Imperceptibility and Impossibility in Los -- CHAPTER 7 Homes for Displaced Figures: Pedro Costa's Colossal Youth -- CHAPTER 8 Sink or Swim: Immersing Ourselves in Jean-Luc Godard's Adieu au langage -- Conclusion: Method-Free Orientation -- Appendix -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Filmography -- Index
Summary
Examines disorientation and confusion, and their theoretical implications, in contemporary narrative film
