Foreword: Are You Watching Closely?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vii
4. Notes on Contributors ix
5. Foreword: Are You Watching Closely? xi
6. Introduction: Dreaming a Little Bigger, Darling 1
7. 1. Developing an Auteur Through Reviews: The Critical Surround of Christopher Nolan 17
8. 2. Cinephilia Writ Large: IMAX in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight and The Dark Knight Rises 31
9. 3. Nolan’s Immersive Allegories of Filmmaking in Inception and The Prestige 44
10. 4. Saints, Sinners and Terrorists: The Women of Christopher Nolan’s Gotham 62
11. 5. Memento’s Postmodern Noir Fantasy: Place, Domesticity and Gender Identity 74
12. 6. Men in Crisis: Christopher Nolan, Un-truths and Fictionalising Masculinity 85
13. 7. Representing Trauma: Grief, Amnesia and Traumatic Memory in Nolan’s New Millennial Films 99
14. 8. ‘The dream has become their reality’: Infinite Regression in Christopher Nolan’s Memento and Inception 120
15. 9. Revisiting the Scene of the Crime: Insomnia and the Return of the Repressed 132
16. 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 147
17. 11. Stumbling Over the Superhero: Christopher Nolan’s Victories and Compromises 164
18. 12. Inception’s Singular Lack of Unity Among Christopher Nolan’s Puzzle Films 175
19. 13. Inception’s Video Game Logic 189
20. 14. On the Work of the Double in Christopher Nolan’s The Prestige 201
21. 15. No End in Sight: The Existential Temporality of Following 219
22. 16. Hearing Music in Dreams – Towards the Semiotic Role of Music in Nolan’s Inception 233
23. 17. About Time Too: From Interstellar to Following, Christopher Nolan’s Continuing Preoccupation with Time-Travel 247
24. Index 268