The Cinema of Converging Lives by Lucy Fischer - 9780197768662

Name: The Cinema of Converging Lives by Lucy Fischer - 9780197768662
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc

Oxford University Press Inc

The Cinema of Converging LivesComplex Films and Intersecting Stories in an Isolated World\nAuthor(s): Lucy Fischer\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Oxford University Press Inc, United States\nImprint: Oxford University Press Inc\nISBN-13: 9780197768662, 978-0197768662\nSynopsis\nWhat happens when strangers meet in film? The Cinema of Converging Lives explores a group of films within an important category of complex film, a genre that critics have hailed as proliferating worldwide in the 1980s and 1990s and continuing today. Lucy Fischer examines a recurring trope within this category which portrays disparate characters, mostly unacquainted and introduced separately, who eventually and often unexpectedly cross paths.\nThe book focuses on underlying causes in each movie that drive the intersection of characters forward. It looks to 23 films by a diverse and international group of directors to consider how chance, coincidence, accident, history, geography, and the supernatural, as well as.