Christopher Nolan : filmmaker and philosopher

著者

    • Goh, Robbie B. H.

書誌事項

Christopher Nolan : filmmaker and philosopher

Robbie B.H. Goh

(Philosophical filmmakers / series editor, Costica Bradatan)

Bloomsbury Academic, 2022

  • : pbk

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注記

Includes bibliographical references (p. [173]-179) and indexes

内容説明・目次

内容説明

Christopher Nolan is the writer and director of Hollywood blockbusters like The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises, and also of arthouse films like Memento and Inception. Underlying his staggering commercial success however, is a darker sensibility that questions the veracity of human knowledge, the allure of appearance over reality and the latent disorder in contemporary society. This appreciation of the sinister owes a huge debt to philosophy and especially modern thinkers like Friedrich Nietzsche, Sigmund Freud and Jacques Derrida. Taking a thematic approach to Nolan's oeuvre, Robbie Goh examines how the director's postmodern inclinations manifest themselves in non-linearity, causal agnosticism, the threat of social anarchy and the frequent use of the mise en abyme, while running counter to these are narratives of heroism, moral responsibility and the dignity of human choice. For Goh, Nolan is a 'reluctant postmodernist'. His films reflect the cynicism of the modern world, but with their representation of heroic moral triumphs, they also resist it.

目次

1. Christopher Nolan as Philosophical Filmmaker: Themes and Influences 2. Postmodernism and Cynicism 3. The Moral Turn: Against Postmodernism 4. Nolan's Heroes as Philosophers 5. Film Narrative and/as Philosophy

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BC1233271X
  • ISBN
    • 9781350139978
  • LCCN
    2021025505
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    vii, 185 p.
  • 大きさ
    22 cm
  • 親書誌ID
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