Furby / Joy The Cinema of Christopher Nolan

Imagining the Impossible
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-231-85076-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Directors Cuts

Contextualizing and closely reading each of Christopher Nolan's films, this collection examines the director’s play with memory, time, trauma, masculinity, and identity.

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

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

Über Autor(innen)

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