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 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.

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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 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.

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The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible

The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible

The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible

The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780231173964
Publisher: Wallflower Press
Publication date: 08/04/2015
Series: Directors' Cuts Series
Pages: 224
Product dimensions: 6.30(w) x 9.30(h) x 1.00(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

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

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

What People are Saying About This

Sean Redmond

This wonderful collection offers a deeply insightful exploration of Nolan's impossibly brilliant cinema. In new and exciting ways each essay throws light on the visions and crises that heat and freeze each of his films. A must have for anyone interested in the terrifying beauty of contemporary cinema.

Anna Froula

Unlocking new dimensions in the puzzles of Christopher Nolan's films, this well-rounded collection offers fresh perspectives on an influential auteur who is still creating ambitious and ambiguous dream worlds. Fans and scholars will enjoy this thought-provoking, richly detailed, and multi-disciplinary set of essays that venture into the maze of Nolan's cerebral and kinetic visions.

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