Cinema and Narrative Complexity

Steffen Hven is a post-doc at the Bauhaus-Universität Weimar. He has published frequently in the journal 16:9 and has presented papers at numerous international conferences. His research interests include film-philosophy, cognitive film science, 'complex narratives', 'embodied cognition', and (affective) neuroscience.

"Hven's book constitutes an essential theoretical instrument with which we can orient ourselves in the contemporary debate concerning the nature and potentiality of audiovisual experience, and it offers an original, interdisciplinary, and embodied cognitive perspective on cinema. Furthermore, with its powerful and innovative arguments, this text will surely constitute a reference point for all those interested in going beyond old, closed dichotomies that are inadequate to tackle the complexity of contemporary audiovisual culture." - Francesco Sticchi, *Projections* Volume 13, Issue 1, Spring 2019

• Chapter 1: Introduction Chapter 2: Cinema in the Interstices Chapter 3: Narrative Ambiguity in the Classical Cinema Chapter 4: Modern(ist) Cinema: Logic of the Encounter Chapter 5: Towards the Embodied Fabula Chapter 6: The Complexity of Complex Narratives Chapter 7: Memento and the Embodied Fabula Chapter 8: Conclusions