Keywords

• At this point in time
• popular media practices (mainstream cinema
• television
• gaming) provide surprisingly complicated multi-layered narrative structures. They urgently call for a closer analysis. The author revisits Genetteâ€
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• s theoretical work â€
• “
• in particular his reflections on metalepsis â€
• “
• to examine the narrative experiments now presented to viewers of mainstream cinema. What can we learn from Genette to understand these new forms of narration
• their functions and the kind of experiences they create? What do they imply for our theories and theorizing on a broader level? Christopher Nolanâ€
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• s Inception (2010) will be used as a case study in order to draw out some of the implications of these new developments â€
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• i.e.
• what Jason Mittell described as the production of films and television series for â€
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• amateur narratologists.â€
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