The cinema of Christopher Nolan : imagining the impossible

The cinema of Christopher Nolan : imagining the impossible / edited by Jacqueline Furby & Stuart Joy.

Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent British cinema to become one of the most commercially successful directors in Hollywood. From Following (1998) to Interstellar (2014), Nolan's films have explored the philoso...

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Other Authors: Furby, Jacqueline (Editor), Joy, Stuart (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, [2015]
Series:Directors' cuts.
Subjects:
Nolan, Christopher, > 1970- > Criticism and interpretation.
Nolan, Christopher, > 1970-
Motion picture producers and directors > Great Britain.
Electronic books.
e-books.
PERFORMING ARTS > Film & Video > History & Criticism.
Motion picture producers and directors
Regissörer.
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Table of Contents:
  • Developing an auteur through reviews: the critical surround of Christopher Nolan / Erin Hill-Parks
  • Cinephilia writ large: IMAX in Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight' and 'The Dark Knight rises' / Allison Whitney
  • Nolan's immersive allegories of filmmaking in 'Inception' and 'The prestige' / Jonathan Olson
  • Saints, sinners and terrorists: the women of Christopher Nolan's Gotham / Tosha Taylor
  • Memento's postmodern noir fantasy: place, domesticity and gender identity / Margaret A. Toth
  • Men in crisis: Christopher Nolan, un-truths and fictionalising masculinity / Peter Deakin
  • Representing trauma: grief, amnesia and traumatic memory in Nolan's new millennial films / Fran Pheasant-Kelly
  • "The dream has become their reality": infinite regression in Christopher Nolan's 'Memento' and 'Inception' / Lisa K. Perdigao
  • Revisiting the scene of the crime: insomnia and the return of the repressed / Stuart Joy
  • "You keep telling yourself what you know, but what do you believe?": cultural spin, puzzle films and mind games in the cinema of Christopher Nolan / Sorcha Ní Fhlainn
  • Stumbling over the superhero: Christopher Nolan's victories and compromises / Todd McGowan
  • Inception's singular lack of unity among Christopher Nolan's puzzle films / Andrew Kania
  • Inception's video game logic / Warren Buckland
  • On the work of the double in Christopher Nolan's 'The prestige' / Kwasu David Tembo
  • Hearing music in dreams: towards a semiotic role of music in Nolan's 'Inception' / Felix Engel and Janina Wildfeuer
  • About time too: from 'Interstellar' to 'Following, ' Christopher Nolan's continuing preoccupation with time-travel / Jacqueline Furby.

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