Narrativas no lineales. Entre la reconstrucción del MRI fracturado y la evidencia de su artificialidad

Abstract

This doctoral thesis explores the trend towards narrative complexity expressed in what scholars are referring to as ‘mind-game films’ or ‘puzzle films’. These filmic narratives, which since the 1990s have emerged as a phenomenon cutting across different genres and national film industries, appear to challenge the conventions of hegemonic cinema presenting features such as temporal nonlinearity or unreliable narrators. Our proposition is that they create an apparent subversion of the Institutional Mode of Representation, but ultimately reaffirm its conventions as necessary for a meaningful narrative. We propose to focus the study on the application of our theoretical framework to a textual analysis of films, which includes the narratological concept of mega-narrator as a key to the comprehension of their regulation of knowledge and mode of signification. We also propose a list of characteristic features of the post-classical nonlinear narratives, which we understand as symptoms of certain obsessions of its time.