International Conference Fast, Slow & Reverse. Faces of Contemporary Film Narration

(Film Narration 2017)

May 24 - 28, 2017, Gdańsk/Kraków (Poland)

Richness of contemporary cinema is perhaps most clearly visible in the diversity of forms and means of film narration. Dynamic transformations in this field apply both to mainstream cinema and to its alternatives: independent cinema, art-house cinema and various types of avant-garde. These two big currents of contemporary cinema interrelate, influencing but at the same time sharply opposing each other. The two extreme wings are the post-narrative Hollywood cinema of attractions on the one hand, and the atmospheric slow cinema, the most recent favourite of film festival audience, on the other.

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

• The viewer of contemporary cinema
• The notion of mainstream cinema
• The genre of puzzle films
• Transformations of time and space in contemporary mainstream cinema
• Intertextuality in mainstream cinema
• Computer games and cinematic narrative structures
• Network narratives and parallel worlds in contemporary mainstream cinema
• Blind chances and coincidences
• Paranoid narratives and unreliable narrators
• Flawed heroes: characters in contemporary mainstream cinema.