Looking for multi-threaded narratives in film and video games, such as Pulp Fiction or Go. [more inside]
posted by ga$money on Sep 11, 2009 - 51 answers

What is the name for the narrative technique whereby you start in media res in the middle of the story and then jump back to the beginning to tell the story in a nromal linear fashion? [more inside]
posted by ninebelow on May 8, 2009 - 17 answers

I'm looking for narratives (books, movies, games) in which the protagonist is dead, dying or unconscious, and discovers they are not in the 'real' world at all, but Hell, heaven, purgatory, a coma, a nightmare, memory, or similar. Examples which contain spoilers below the fold. [more inside]
posted by unSane on Mar 28, 2008 - 63 answers

I'm looking for fictional intragenerational incest narratives -- books, film, television, etc. -- in which the relationship is presented as a tragic love, doomed to failure. I'm not interested in the probably more common (and more realistic) pure trauma narratives. The relationship need not necessarily be physically consummated. [more inside]
posted by nobody on Mar 25, 2008 - 49 answers

What are some famous stories that don't have a proper ending, like the series finale of the Sopranos? [more inside]
posted by lunchbox on Oct 23, 2007 - 62 answers

Help me remember this independent Canadian film! [more inside]
posted by SassHat on Sep 5, 2007 - 2 answers

Fiction usually comes in two flavours: 1st person narrative or 3rd person description. What short stories or novels have been written in 2nd person perspective (i.e. from the reader's viewpoint)? Also, are there any movies shot entirely from this angle?
posted by 0bvious on Jan 17, 2006 - 63 answers