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The Cinema of Christopher Nolan : Imagining the Impossible.

Furby, Jacqueline.

The Cinema of Christopher Nolan : Imagining the Impossible.

Furby, Jacqueline.

9780231850766

Furby, Jacqueline.

1 online resource (289 pages)

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Table of Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Notes on Contributors -- Foreword: Are You Watching Closely?, by Will Brooker -- Introduction: Dreaming a Little Bigger, Darling, by Stuart Joy -- 1. Developing an Auteur Through Reviews: The Critical Surround of Christopher Nolan, by Erin Hill-Parks -- 2. Cinephilia Writ Large: IMAX in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, by Allison Whitney -- 3. Nolan's Immersive Allegories of Filmmaking in Inception and The Prestige, by Jonathan Olson -- 4. Saints, Sinners and Terrorists: The Women of Christopher Nolan's Gotham, by Tosha Taylor -- 5. Memento's Postmodern Noir Fantasy: Place, Domesticity and Gender Identity, by Margaret A. Toth -- 6. Men in Crisis: Christopher Nolan, Un-truths and Fictionalising Masculinity, by Peter Deakin -- 7. Representing Trauma: Grief, Amnesia and Traumatic Memory in Nolan's New Millennial Films, by Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- 8. 'The dream has become their reality': Infinite Regression in Christopher Nolan's Memento and Inception, by Lisa K. Perdigao -- 9. Revisiting the Scene of the Crime: Insomnia and the Return of the Repressed, by Stuart Joy -- 10. '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, by Sorcha Ní Fhlainn -- 11. Stumbling Over the Superhero: Christopher Nolan's Victories and Compromises, by Todd McGowan -- 12. Inception's Singular Lack of Unity Among Christopher Nolan's Puzzle Films, by Andrew Kania -- 13. Inception's Video Game Logic, by Warren Buckland -- 14. On the Work of the Double in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, by Kwasu David Tembo -- 15. No End in Sight: The Existential Temporality of Following, by Erin Kealey -- 16. Hearing Music in Dreams: Towards the Semiotic Role of Music in Nolan's Inception, by Felix Engel and Janina Wildfeuer.

17. About Time Too: From Interstellar to Following, Christopher Nolan's Continuing Preoccupation with Time-Travel, by Jacqueline Furby -- Index.

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 philosophical concerns of cinema articulated through a distinctive cerebral style that is marked by a frequent experimentation with non-linear storytelling, and yet remains integrated within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Through the contextualization and close readings of each of his films, this collection brings together academic work from a range of disciplines to examine the director's central themes and preoccupations memory, time, trauma, masculinity and identity whilst also offering analyses of otherwise marginalized aspects of his work, such as the function of music, video games and the impact of IMAX and other new technologies.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

Art and motion pictures.

Motion picture producers and directors -- History and criticism.

Nolan, Christopher, 1970- -- Criticism and interpretation.

Electronic books.

Joy, Stuart.

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