A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan
A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan
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A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan provides a wide-ranging exploration of Christopher Nolan's films, practices, and collaborations. From a range of critical perspectives, this volume examines Nolan's body of work, explores its industrial and economic contexts, and interrogates the director's auteur status. This volume contributes to the scholarly debates on Nolan and includes original essays that examine all his films including his short films. It is structured into three sections that deal broadly with themes of narrative and time; collaborations and relationships; and ideology, politics, and genre. The authors of the sixteen chapters include established Nolan scholars as well as academics with expertise in approaches and perspectives germane to the study of Nolan's body of work. To these ends, the chapters employ intersectional, feminist, political, ideological, narrative, economic, aesthetic, genre, and auteur analysis in addition to perspectives from star theory, short film theory, performance studies, fan studies, adaptation studies, musicology, and media industry studies.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Precursor to the Puzzle: Narrational Strategies in Following
Warren Buckland
Chapter 2. 'We Need Mirrors to Remind Ourselves of Who We Are': Anamorphosis and the Singularity of Mirror Motifs in Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000)
Isabelle Labrouillère
Chapter 3. The Prestige, From Text to Screen: Transformation, Manipulation, Reflexivity
Gilles Menegaldo
Chapter 4. The Trauma Chronotype in Nolan's Dunkirk and Inception: Time, Space and Trauma
Fran Pheasant-Kelly
Chapter 5. Back From the Future: Tenet and the Politics of Nachträglichkeit
Todd McGowan
SECTION 2: COLLABORATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS
Chapter 6. “There's a Point Where We Just Let the Music Take Over Everything”: The Collaboration of Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer”
Bernadette Pace
Chapter 7. A “Virtual Carte Blanche”: Christopher Nolan, Warner. Bros., and Authorial Power in Contemporary Hollywood
Kimberly A. Owczarski
Chapter 8. Transnational Filmmaker, Fanboy-Auteur: Screening Nolan's
Product details
| Published | 29 Jan 2025 |
|---|---|
| Format | Paperback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 298 |
| ISBN | 9781793652539 |
| Imprint | Lexington Books |
| Illustrations | 1 b/w photos; 1 tables; 1 textboxes; |
| Dimensions | 229 x 152 mm |
| Series | Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Directors |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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