The cinema of Christopher Nolan imagining the impossible / edited by Jacqueline Furby & Stuart Joy.
| Other author | Furby, Jacqueline. |
| Other author | Joy, Stuart. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | New York : Wallflower Press, [2015] |
| Description | xiii, 274 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Public Library Complete |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Directors' cuts Directors' cuts. ^A588854 |
| Contents | Introduction. Dreaming a little bigger, darling / Stuart Joy -- 1. Developing an auteur through reviews: the critical surround of Christopher Nolan / Erin Hill-Parks -- 2. Cinephilia writ large: IMAX in Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight' and 'The Dark Knight rises' / Allison Whitney -- 3. Nolan's immersive allegories of filmmaking in 'Inception' and 'The prestige' / Jonathan Olson -- 4. Saints, sinners and terrorists: the women of Christopher Nolan's Gotham / Tosha Taylor -- 5. Memento's postmodern noir fantasy: place, domesticity and gender identity / Margaret A. Toth -- 6. Men in crisis: Christopher Nolan, un-truths and fictionalising masculinity / Peter Deakin -- 7. Representing trauma: grief, amnesia and traumatic memory in Nolan's new millennial films / Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- 8. "The dream has become their reality": infinite regression in Christopher Nolan's 'Memento' and 'Inception' / Lisa K. Perdigao -- 9. Revisiting the scene of the crime: insomnia and the return of the repressed / 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 / Sorcha N©Ư Fhlainn -- 11. Stumbling over the superhero: Christopher Nolan's victories and compromises / Todd McGowan -- 12. Inception's singular lack of unity among Christopher Nolan's puzzle films / Andrew Kania -- 13. Inception's video game logic / Warren Buckland -- 14. On the work of the double in Christopher Nolan's 'The prestige' / Kwasu David Tembo -- 15. Hearing music in dreams: towards a semiotic role of music in Nolan's 'Inception' / Felix Engel and Janina Wildfeuer -- 17. About time too: from 'Interstellar' to 'Following,' Christopher Nolan's continuing preoccupation with time-travel / Jacqueline Furby. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2016297652 |
| ISBN | 9780231173971 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231173970 (pbk. : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 9780231173964 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 0231173962 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | (e-book) |
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| Library | Location | Call Number | Status | Item Actions |
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| Electronic Resources | ✔ Available |