List of Contributors vii Introduction: Puzzle Plots 1 Warren Buckland 1 The Mind-Game Film 13 Thomas Elsaesser 2 Making Sense of Lost Highway 42 Warren Buckland 3 "Twist Blindness": The Role of Primacy, Priming, Schemas, and Reconstructive Memory in a First-Time Viewing of The Sixth Sense 62 Daniel Barratt 4 Narrative Comprehension Made Difficult: Film Form and Mnemonic Devices in Memento 87 Stefano Ghislotti 5 "Frustrated Time" Narration: The Screenplays of Charlie Kaufman 107 Chris Dzialo 6 Backbeat and Overlap: Time, Place, and Character Subjectivity in Run Lola Run 129 Michael Wedel 7 Infernal Affairs and the Ethics of Complex Narrative 151 Allan Cameron and Sean Cubitt 8 Happy Together? Generic Hybridity in 2046 and In the Mood for Love 167 Gary Bettinson 9 Revitalizing the Thriller Genre: Lou Ye's Suzhou River and Purple Butterfly 187 Yunda Eddie Feng 10 The Pragmatic Poetics of Hong Sangsoo's The Day a Pig Fell into a Well 203 Marshall Deutelbaum 11 Looking for Access in Narrative Complexity. The New and the Old in Oldboy 217 Eleftheria Thanouli Index 233.