Description
Book SynopsisWith close readings of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Inception, this theoretically sophisticated study explores how Christopher Nolan has developed a politically engaged filmmaking that makes explicit use of cinema’s tendency toward the lie.
Trade Review"Unassumingly brilliant and surgically incisive..." Psychoanalysis, Culture, and Society
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Ethics of the Lie
- Chapter 1. The Snare of Truth: Following and the Perfect Patsy
- Chapter 2. Memento and the Desire Not to Know
- Chapter 3. The Dirty Cop: Insomnia and the Art of Detection
- Chapter 4. The Banal Superhero: The Politicized Realism of Batman Begins
- Chapter 5. The Violence of Creation in The Prestige
- Chapter 6. The Hero’s Form of Appearance: The Necessary Darkness of The Dark Knight
- Chapter 7. A Plea for the Abandonment of Reality in Inception
- Conclusion: Lying without Consequence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
