{"product_id":"puzzling-stories-the-aesthetic-appeal-of-cognitive-challenge-in-film-television-and-literature-9781805393146","title":"Puzzling Stories: The Aesthetic Appeal of Cognitive Challenge in Film, Television and Literature","description":"\u003cp\u003e Many films and novels defy our ability to make sense of the plot. While puzzling storytelling, strange incongruities, inviting enigmas and persistent ambiguities have been central to the effects of many literary and cinematic traditions, a great deal of contemporary films and television series bring such qualities to the mainstream-but wherein lies the attractiveness of perplexing works of fiction? This collected volume offers the first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, and trans-medial approach to the question of cognitive challenge in narrative art, bringing together psychological, philosophical, formal-historical, and empirical perspectives from leading scholars across these fields.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven Willemsen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Berghahn Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 408\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.20lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.84d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781805393146\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMiklós Kiss\u003c\/strong\u003e is Associate Professor of Audiovisual Arts and Cognition and Chair of the Arts, Culture and Media department at the University of Groningen, the Netherlands. His research intersects the fields of narrative and cognitive film studies. He is co-author of the books \u003cem\u003eFilm Studies in Motion: from Audiovisual Essay to Academic Research Video\u003c\/em\u003e (with Thomas van den Berg, Scalar, 2016) and \u003cem\u003eImpossible Puzzle Films: A Cognitive Approach to Contemporary Complex Cinema\u003c\/em\u003e (with Steven Willemsen, Edinburgh University Press, 2017).\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Berghahn Books","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43981479903347,"sku":"9.78181E+12","price":71.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_24018ad7-e37d-43f3-b1dd-0481c4bd4774.jpg?v=1760622693","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/puzzling-stories-the-aesthetic-appeal-of-cognitive-challenge-in-film-television-and-literature-9781805393146","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}