Stories

Ian Christie is a film historian and curator, currently Professor of Film and Media History at Birkbeck, University of London. He is a Fellow of the British Academy and has been a visiting professor and fellow at universities in Chicago, Tampa, Stockholm, Canberra, Paris and Olomouc, and at Gresham College in London 2017-21, as well as Slade Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University in 2006. He has written and edited books on Powell and Pressburger, Russian cinema, Martin Scorsese and Terry Gilliam; and contributed to many exhibitions Annie van den Oever is Distinguished Visiting Professor (University of Johannesburg) and, until recently, Professor of Film (University Groningen) and Extraordinary Professor of Film and Visual Media (University of the Free State). She published Doing Experimental Media Archaeology: Theory in 2022, with Andreas Fickers, and Technics in 2024, with Nicholas Baer.

"There are very few book series that fully keep to what they promised, as "The Key Debates" does. An incredible effort in critically covering wide regions of our field -- with their traditional assets and their sudden innovations. Visual storytelling poses puzzling questions: the seventh volume of the series tries to answer them." - Francesco Casetti, Yale University "Rather than explaining our previous accounts of story-telling and story-viewing, this exciting collection opens up the field to important new questions about complex, large, and transmedia narratives. It is a valuable contribution to research on how and why we engage with stories." - Janet Staiger, University of Texas "An indispensable collection of essays exploring the complexities of storytelling in today's multi-faceted media environment. This volume constitutes another important contribution to ongoing debates in Film and Media Studies provided by a remarkable book series." - Frank Kessler, Utrecht University

• Editorial Acknowledgments Screen Narrative in the Digital Era Ian Christe and Annie van den Oever PART I Theory in Contemporary Contexts: Reassessing Key Questions Stories and Storytelling in the Era of Graphic Narrative Jan Baetens Rediscovering Iconographic Storytelling Vincent Amiel Wallowing in Dissonance. The Attractiveness of Impossible Puzzle Films Miklós Kiss and Steven Willemsen "Storification"; or, What Do We Want Psychology and Physiology to Tell Us About Stories? Ian Christie Transmedia Storytelling. New Practices and Audiences Melanie Schiller PART II History and Analyses The Endless Endings of Michelangelo Antonioni's Films José Moure The Film that Dreams. About David Lynch's TWIN PEAKS Season 3 Dominique Chateau Spoilers, Twists and Dragons. Popular Narrative After GAME OF THRONES Sandra Laugier PART III Discussions Storytelling and Mainstream Television Today John Ellis and Annie van den Oever The Single Shot, Narration and Creativity in the Space of Everyday Communication Roger Odin PART IV Practicalities Rewriting Proust. Working with Chantal Akerman on LA CAPTIVE: A Conversation Eric de Kuyper and Annie van den Oever Introduction to DICKENSIAN: an Intertextual Universe? Ian Christie The Lives of the Characters in DICKENSIAN Luke McKernan Music Structuring Narrative. A Dialogue Robert Ziegler and Ian Christie Notes on Contributors Index of Names Index of Film Titles