{"product_id":"a-critical-companion-to-christopher-nolan-9781793652515","title":"A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eA 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eParkinson and Labrouillère’s collection successfully brings incisive analyses of Nolan’s auteur status and trademarks into dialogue with productive examinations of his collaborations, influences, politics, and shifting industry positions. With chapters ranging in focus from documentary and experimental shorts, to landmark indies, and Hollywood blockbusters, A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan is a welcome addition to contemporary film scholarship.\u003c\/p\u003e -- Kim Wilkins, University of Oslo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION 1: NARRATIVE AND TIME\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 1. Precursor to the Puzzle: Narrational Strategies in Following\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWarren Buckland\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 2. ‘We Need Mirrors to Remind Ourselves of Who We Are’: Anamorphosis and the Singularity of Mirror Motifs in Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIsabelle Labrouillère\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3. The Prestige, From Text to Screen: Transformation, Manipulation, Reflexivity\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGilles Menegaldo\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 4. The Trauma Chronotype in Nolan’s Dunkirk and Inception: Time, Space and Trauma\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFran Pheasant-Kelly\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 5. Back From the Future: Tenet and the Politics of Nachträglichkeit\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eTodd McGowan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION 2: COLLABORATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPS\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 6. “There’s a Point Where We Just Let the Music Take Over Everything”: The Collaboration of Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBernadette Pace\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 7. A “Virtual Carte Blanche”: Christopher Nolan, Warner. Bros., and Authorial Power in Contemporary Hollywood\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eKimberly A. Owczarski\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 8. Transnational Filmmaker, Fanboy-Auteur: Screening Nolan’s Inception in China\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLara Herring\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 9. Fractured Men and Cockney Boy: Michael Caine as Star Persona in the films of Christopher Nolan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStella Hockenhull\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 10. Christopher Nolan and the Quays: Curation, Fandom and the Filmmaker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eClaire Parkinson\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSECTION 3: POLITICS, IDEOLOGY AND GENRE\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 11. Situating Christopher Nolan’s Ideological Use of Technology: Between Romanticism and Posthumanism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBen Lamb\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 12. Dark Vision, Global Impact: Christopher Nolan, Box Office Hit Patterns, and Interstellar\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePeter Krämer\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 13. Mementos of the Afternoon: Christopher Nolan’s Ambiguous Debt to Maya Deren\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWill Brooker\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 14. “Some Men Just Want to Watch the World Burn”: The Politics of Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight Trilogy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eGregory Frame\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 15. The Experimental Short Films of Christopher Nolan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStuart Joy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 16. Catwoman in All But Name: Gender and Adaptation in Christopher Nolan’s Selina Kyle\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMiriam Kent\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51042697150807,"sku":"9781793652515","price":76.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781793652515.jpg?v=1750955223","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-critical-companion-to-christopher-nolan-9781793652515","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}