Donnie Darko.

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American smart cinema / by Perkins, Claire

Table of Contents: “…Authorship : Whit Stillman's 'Yuppie' trilogy, Flirt, Adaptation -- Narrative : The Squid and the Whale, The Safety of Objects, Palindromes -- Melodrama : The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, The Royal Tenenbaums -- Music : Simple Men, Magnolia, Ghost World -- Suburbia and utopia : Happiness, Your Friends and Neighbors, The Chumscrubber, Donnie Darko -- Conclusion.…”
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Framed time : toward a postfilmic cinema / by Stewart, Garrett

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Deleuze, altered states and film / by Powell, Anna

Table of Contents: “…Sculpting in time: Deleuze, Tarkovsky and Stalker -- Bergson's time: movement and duration -- Deleuze's time-image -- Entrancing time: the crystal-image and altered states in Heart of glass -- The crystal-image -- Agitation of the mind -- Crystal and cloud -- Liquid crystal: Stalker -- Donnie Darko: incompossible worlds -- Deflecting time's arrow -- 2001: a time odyssey -- A prehistory of consciousness -- Jupiter and beyond the infinite -- Insert: the abstract time-image -- Time in a room. -- CONCLUSION: BECOMING-FRACTAL. …”
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Buddhism and American cinema /

Table of Contents: “…Struhl: Buddhism, our desperation, and American cinema -- Devin Harner: Christian allegory, Buddhism and Bardo in Richard Kelly's Donnie Darko -- David l. Smith: "Beautiful necessities": American beauty and the idea of freedom -- Postscript -- Gary Gach: Afterword: on being luminous.…”
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Impossible puzzle films : a cognitive approach to contemporary complex cinema / by Kiss, Miklós, (College teacher), Willemsen, Steven

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Violating Time : History, Memory, and Nostalgia in Cinema. by Lee, Christina

Table of Contents: “…When People Run in Circles: Structures of Time and Memory in Donnie Darko; Echoes from a Vanished World; Hearing the Past; Contested Histories; Postscript: The Signifi cance of the Smurfs; 13. …”
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Color it true : impressions of cinema / by Pomerance, Murray, 1946-

Table of Contents: “…Purple Tensions: Magnificent Obsession -- [5] Of Orange -- Mad Orange: Alice Through the Looking Glass Modest Orange: Aladdin II An Orange Meow: The Long Goodbye Orange for the Adventurer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind An Orange Shield: Vertigo II Temptation Orange: Written on the Wind II Death of a Fruit: The Godfather Burnt Orange: Jungle Book -- [6] Of Gray -- Historical Gray: Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone; Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban; Lord of the Rings; The Hobbit Gray Style: The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit: I Inert Gray: Donnie Darko Gray Proportion: 2001: A Space Odyssey I The Gray Vigil: A Ghost Story Screen Gray: Arrival The Gray Gulag: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich Schematic Gray: Red Desert [Il deserto rosso] -- [7] Of Yellow -- Paved Yellow: The Wizard of Oz Celestial Yellow: Little Buddha Yellow and Tender: The Fugitive Yellow Crust: Watchmen Mother's Yellow: Diary of a Mad Housewife Reflective Yellow: To Catch a Thief, The Dreamers Yellow Risk: Marnie I -- [8] Of Black -- A Tale of Horror and Imagination: The Fly Black Faith: The Silver Chalice Seeing Past Black: "The Lone Ranger"; The Lone Ranger (1956); The Lone Ranger (2013) Fate: Treasure Island A Black Stream: Grease The Black Father: Star Wars Black Search: Psycho II Jocko: In the Heat of the Night -- [9] Of Brown -- Continuous Brown: Lawrence of Arabia Tyranny in Beige: Interiors The Brown Frontier: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly A Brown River: Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory A Brown Chagrin: L'heure d'été [Summer Hours] Democratic Brown: North by Northwest Brown Filth: The Magic Christian -- [10] Of Mauve -- Sleight of Hand: Meet Me in St. …”
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Looking at movies : an introduction to film / by Monahan, Dave, 1962-, Barsam, Richard Meran

Table of Contents: “…-- The Movie Director -- Ways of Looking at Movies -- Invisibility and Cinematic Language -- Cultural Invisibility -- Implicit and Explicit Meaning -- Viewer Expectations -- Formal Analysis -- Cultural Analysis -- Analyzing Looking at Movies -- Screening Checklist: Looking at Movies -- Questions for Review -- Learning Objectives -- Film Form -- Form and Content -- Form and Expectations -- Patterns -- Fundamentals of Film Form -- Movies Depend on Light -- Movies Provide an Illusion of Movement -- Movies Manipulate Space and Time in Unique Ways -- Realism, Antirealism, and Formalism -- Verisimilitude -- Cinematic Language -- Looking at Film Form: Donnie Darko -- Content -- Expectations -- Patterns -- Manipulating Space -- Manipulating Time -- Realism, Antirealism, and Verisimilitude -- Analyzing Principles of Film Form -- Screening Checklist: Principles of Film Form -- Questions for Review -- Learning Objectives -- The Idea of Narrative -- Types of Movies -- Narrative Movies -- Documentary Movies -- Experimental Movies -- Hybrid Movies -- Genre -- Genre Conventions -- Story Formulas -- Theme -- Character Types -- Setting -- Presentation -- Stars -- Six Major American Genres -- Gangster -- Film Noir -- Science Fiction -- Horror -- The Western -- The Musical -- Evolution and Transformation of Genre -- What about Animation? …”