The Cinema of Christopher Nolan

Imagining the Impossible
Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-17396-4
Verlag: Columbia University Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 242 mm x 162 mm, Gewicht: 614 g

Reihe: Directors' Cuts

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), Christopher Nolan's films explore philosophical concerns by experimenting with nonlinear storytelling while also working within classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Contextualizing and closely reading each of his films, this collection examines the director's play with memory, time, trauma, masculinity, and identity, and considers the function of music and video games and the effect of IMAX on his work.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Furby, Jacqueline

Joy, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmtheorie, Filmanalyse
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsNotes on Contributors Foreword: Are You Watching Closely?, by Will BrookerIntroduction: Dreaming a Little Bigger, Darling, by Stuart Joy1. Developing an Auteur Through Reviews: The Critical Surround of Christopher Nolan, by Erin Hill-Parks2. Cinephilia Writ Large: IMAX in Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, by Allison Whitney3. Nolan's Immersive Allegories of Filmmaking in Inception and The Prestige, by Jonathan Olson4. Saints, Sinners and Terrorists: The Women of Christopher Nolan's Gotham, by Tosha Taylor5. Memento's Postmodern Noir Fantasy: Place, Domesticity and Gender Identity, by Margaret A. Toth6. Men in Crisis: Christopher Nolan, Un-truths and Fictionalising Masculinity, by Peter Deakin7. Representing Trauma: Grief, Amnesia and Traumatic Memory in Nolan's New Millennial Films, by Fran Pheasant-Kelly8. 'The dream has become their reality': Infinite Regression in Christopher Nolan's Memento and Inception, by Lisa K. Perdigao9. Revisiting the Scene of the Crime: Insomnia and the Return of the Repressed, by Stuart Joy10. '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 Fhlainn11. Stumbling Over the Superhero: Christopher Nolan's Victories and Compromises, by Todd McGowan12. Inception's Singular Lack of Unity Among Christopher Nolan's Puzzle Films, by Andrew Kania13. Inception's Video Game Logic, by Warren Buckland14. On the Work of the Double in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige, by Kwasu David Tembo15. No End in Sight: The Existential Temporality of Following, by Erin Kealey16. Hearing Music in Dreams: Towards the Semiotic Role of Music in Nolan's Inception, by Felix Engel and Janina Wildfeuer17. About Time Too: From Interstellar to Following, Christopher Nolan's Continuing Preoccupation with Time-Travel, by Jacqueline FurbyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

Jacqueline Furby is senior lecturer in film and Stuart Joy is associate lecturer in film and television at Southampton Solent University.