Warren Buckland is Reader in Film Studies at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He is author of Directed by Steven Spielberg and The Cognitive Semiotics of Film, and co-author (with Thomas Elsaesser) of Studying Contemporary American Film.

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