Warren Buckland is reader in film studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Film Studies: An Introduction, fifth edition (2015); Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema (2009); and Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (2006).

A masterful summary of the discoveries that have made narrative theory one of the most intellectually powerful paradigms in film studies. One of the great pleasures in reading Buckland's clear and concise book are the acute analyses he provides of a range of popular films, readings that illustrate the strengths of the method—and the strengths of the author. Genuinely illuminating.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. The Basics1 The Emergence of Narrative, Narration, and Narrative Agents in Early Cinema (The Gay Shoe Clerk)2 Narrative Structure in Classical and Contemporary Hollywood (Hitchcock and James Bond)3 Narration (Gone Girl, beDevil, and Jurassic Park)4 Enunciation and Reflexivity (The Grand Budapest Hoteland Marnie)Part II. Types of Storytelling5 Feminism, Narrative, Authorship (Gone Girland Orlando)6 Art Cinema Narration (Alice in the Citiesand Inland Empire)7 Unreliable Narration and Puzzle Films (You Only Live Once, Stage Fright, and The Butterfly Effect)8 Videogame Logic (The Fifth Element, Inception, and Source Code)CodaWorks CitedIndex

Warren Buckland is reader in film studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Film Studies: An Introduction, fifth edition (2015); Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema (2009); and Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (2006).

A masterful summary of the discoveries that have made narrative theory one of the most intellectually powerful paradigms in film studies. One of the great pleasures in reading Buckland's clear and concise book are the acute analyses he provides of a range of popular films, readings that illustrate the strengths of the method—and the strengths of the author. Genuinely illuminating.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. The Basics1 The Emergence of Narrative, Narration, and Narrative Agents in Early Cinema (The Gay Shoe Clerk)2 Narrative Structure in Classical and Contemporary Hollywood (Hitchcock and James Bond)3 Narration (Gone Girl, beDevil, and Jurassic Park)4 Enunciation and Reflexivity (The Grand Budapest Hoteland Marnie)Part II. Types of Storytelling5 Feminism, Narrative, Authorship (Gone Girland Orlando)6 Art Cinema Narration (Alice in the Citiesand Inland Empire)7 Unreliable Narration and Puzzle Films (You Only Live Once, Stage Fright, and The Butterfly Effect)8 Videogame Logic (The Fifth Element, Inception, and Source Code)CodaWorks CitedIndex

Warren Buckland is reader in film studies at Oxford Brookes University. He is the author or editor of a number of books, including Film Studies: An Introduction, fifth edition (2015); Puzzle Films: Complex Storytelling in Contemporary Cinema (2009); and Directed by Steven Spielberg: Poetics of the Contemporary Hollywood Blockbuster (2006).

A masterful summary of the discoveries that have made narrative theory one of the most intellectually powerful paradigms in film studies. One of the great pleasures in reading Buckland's clear and concise book are the acute analyses he provides of a range of popular films, readings that illustrate the strengths of the method—and the strengths of the author. Genuinely illuminating.

• PrefaceAcknowledgmentsPart I. The Basics1 The Emergence of Narrative, Narration, and Narrative Agents in Early Cinema (The Gay Shoe Clerk)2 Narrative Structure in Classical and Contemporary Hollywood (Hitchcock and James Bond)3 Narration (Gone Girl, beDevil, and Jurassic Park)4 Enunciation and Reflexivity (The Grand Budapest Hoteland Marnie)Part II. Types of Storytelling5 Feminism, Narrative, Authorship (Gone Girland Orlando)6 Art Cinema Narration (Alice in the Citiesand Inland Empire)7 Unreliable Narration and Puzzle Films (You Only Live Once, Stage Fright, and The Butterfly Effect)8 Videogame Logic (The Fifth Element, Inception, and Source Code)CodaWorks CitedIndex