The Cinema of Converging Lives: Complex Films and Intersecting Stories in an Isolated World

Author/Contributor(s):	Fischer, Lucy
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Date:	10/14/2025
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

What happens when strangers meet in film? In this book, Lucy Fischer analyzes films by a diverse and international group of directors which portray the seemingly random intersection of separate lives. Exploring this important category of the complex film genre, she dissects the different narrative forces which bring the characters together and considers the relationship between this genre and rising loneliness and isolation worldwide.