The Cinema of Christopher Nolan Imagining the Impossible

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 philo...

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Otros Autores: Furby, Jacqueline, ed. lit (ed lit), Joy, Stuart, ed. lit
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press [2015].
Colección:Plataforma De Gruyter ebook.
Directors' Cuts.
Acceso en línea:Conectar con la versión electrónica
Ver en Universidad de Navarra:https://innopac.unav.es/record=b34088866*spi
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes on Contributors
  • Foreword: Are You Watching Closely?
  • Introduction: Dreaming a Little Bigger, Darling
  • 1. Developing an Auteur Through Reviews: The Critical Surround of Christopher Nolan
  • 2. Cinephilia Writ Large: IMAX in Christopher Nolan{u2019}s The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises
  • 3. Nolan{u2019}s Immersive Allegories of Filmmaking in Inception and The Prestige
  • 4. Saints, Sinners and Terrorists: The Women of Christopher Nolan{u2019}s Gotham
  • 5. Memento{u2019}s Postmodern Noir Fantasy: Place, Domesticity and Gender Identity
  • 6. Men in Crisis: Christopher Nolan, Un-truths and Fictionalising Masculinity
  • 7. Representing Trauma: Grief, Amnesia and Traumatic Memory in Nolan{u2019}s New Millennial Films
  • 8. {u2018}The dream has become their reality{u2019}: Infinite Regression in Christopher Nolan{u2019}s Memento and Inception
  • 9. Revisiting the Scene of the Crime: Insomnia and the Return of the Repressed
  • 10. {u2018}You keep telling yourself what you know, but what do you believe?{u2019}: Cultural Spin, Puzzle Films and Mind Games in the Cinema of Christopher Nolan
  • 11. Stumbling Over the Superhero: Christopher Nolan{u2019}s Victories and Compromises
  • 12. Inception{u2019}s Singular Lack of Unity Among Christopher Nolan{u2019}s Puzzle Films
  • 13. Inception{u2019}s Video Game Logic
  • 14. On the Work of the Double in Christopher Nolan{u2019}s The Prestige
  • 15. No End in Sight: The Existential Temporality of Following
  • 16. Hearing Music in Dreams {u2013} Towards the Semiotic Role of Music in Nolan{u2019}s Inception
  • 17. About Time Too: From Interstellar to Following, Christopher Nolan{u2019}s Continuing Preoccupation with Time-Travel
  • Index.