Books in the Key Debates - Mutations and Appropriations in European Film Studies series

This timely volume engages with one of the most important shifts in recent film studies: the turn away from text-based analysis towards the viewer. Historically, this marks a return to early interest in the effect of film on the audience by psychoanalysts and psychologists, which was overtaken by concern with the 'effects' of film, linked to calls

Brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to analyse the growing presence and place of screens in our lives today.

This book identifies new phenomena in the fields of complex narration, puzzle film, and transmedia storytelling.