: Sabine Schenk
: Running and Clicking Future Narratives in Film
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Running and Clickingexamines how Future Narratives push against the confines of their medium: Studying Future Narratives in movies, interactive films, and other electronic media that allow for nodes, this volume demonstrates how the dividing line between film and game is progressively dissolved.Focused on traditional mass media, transitional media, and new media, it also touches on transmedial storytelling and virtual reality, discussions of the political power of the imaginary and of the possible fate of Future Narratives in the post-human hegemony of the simulated real.



Sabine Claudia Schenk,Ludwig-Maximi ians-Universität München, Germany.
Acknowledgments5
Preface9
1 Concepts and Methodology11
1.1 The Future in ‘Future Narratives’11
1.1.1 ‘No Future’ – Past Narratives15
1.1.2 Mapping the Future21
1.2 From ‘Running’ to ‘Clicking’49
2 ‘Running’ – FNs on Film59
2.1 “Cinema is memory, it’s always part” – or is it?59
2.2 ‘Film Futures’ and Mind-Games in Movies63
2.3 ‘Running’75
2.3.1 Chance and Contingency in Tykwer’s Lola Rennt76
2.3.2 Kieslowski’s Blind Chance – or ‘Take It Easy, Lola!’96
2.3.3 Artificiality and Complexity in Resnais’ Smoking / No Smoking109
2.3.4 Parallel Streaming: Howitt’s Sliding Doors119
2.3.5 The Big Crunch: Van Dormael’s Mr. Nobody125
2.3.6 Game Over? – Jones’ Source Code135
2.4 ‘Running’: The Recipient as Viewer142
3 ‘Running’ and ‘Clicking’147
3.1 Beyond the Film Reel147
3.1.1 DVD: Recipient as ‘Viewser’153
3.1.2 Television and Transmedia160
3.1.2.1 FNs in TV Serials160
3.1.2.2 ‘Reality TV’168
3.1.2.3 Is the Future LOST, Dina Foxx?175
3.2 Hybrid FNs Between ‘Running’ and ‘Clicking’187
4 ‘Clicking’ – FNs in New Media191
4.1 ‘Movie Game’ vs ‘Interactive Film’191
4.1.1 Heavy Rain as Movie Game197
4.1.2 FNs and the Database: Korsakow Films and ‘Hypernarrative Interactive Cinema’202
4.2 ‘Clicking’: FNs and the User211
5 Conclusion: FNs in Film and Their Future213
Works Cited219