Strange "forms" within contemportary film/literature/poetry?

Question

I'm preparing a presentation on how form is one of the best contemporary devices; does anyone have any examples of how normal form in literature, poetry and film has been pushed beyond expected boundaries?

For example, Mark Z Danielewski's "House of Leaves" isn't just prose, it's fictional newspaper articles, letters, clippings etc ... Ang Lee's "Hulk" is like a film version of a comic book, with panels etc.

Does anyone have any more examples like these? Thanks!

Answer 1

In poetry, Flarf challenges notions of authorship in literature. Flarf writes poems text gleaned from internet searches. Search for Flarf and you'll find a ton of info.

In film, La Jetee uses only still photos to make a motion picture, blurring the bounds between photogaphy and cinema.

Answer 2

You should forget about it entirely, and remember that the only lasting innovators in form were those were completely and credibly immersed in the forms up to that time. People like Joyce and Eliot come to mind, or people like Jung and Freud, who knew much about philosophy before creating a new science. The temptation to dabble in the production of new "superficial" forms is the hobgoblin of small artists. The greatest advances are made by people who show us knew ways to feel, experience, understand, and interpret - that is why all of us have acquired to some extent the mind of a Freud, to use the most obvious example. Go back to studying the boring things you tell your teacher you shouldn't have to, it will pay off.