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As a director, writer, and producer, Christopher Nolan has substantially impacted contemporary cinema through avant garde films, such as Following and Memento, and his contribution to wider pop culture with his Dark Knight trilogy. His latest film, Interstellar, delivered the same visual qualities and complex, thought-provoking plotlines his audience anticipates. The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan collects sixteen essays, written by professional philosophers and film theorists, discussing themes such as self-identity and self-destruction, moral choice and moral doubt, the nature of truth and its value, whether we can trust our perceptions of what’s "real," the political psychology of heroes and villains, and what it means to be a "viewer" of Nolan’s films. Whether his protagonists are squashing themselves like a bug, struggling to create an identity and moral purpose for themselves, suffering from their own duplicitous plots, donning a mask that both strikes fear and reveals their true nature, or having to weigh the lives of those they love against the greater good, there are no simple solutions to the questions Nolan’s films provoke; exploring these questions yields its own reward.
Table des matières
Introduction
Part 1: Moral Philosophy
1. George A. Dunn-Deceit, Desire, and Mimetic Doubling in the Films of Christopher Nolan
2. Jason T. Eberl-"So You Can Be My 'John G.'": Moral Culpability in Memento
3. J. L. A. Garcia: White Nights of the Soul-Insomnia and the Struggle for Purity of Heart
4. Lance Belluomini & George A. Dunn-Love, Value, and the Human Destiny in Interstellar
Part 2: Politics and Culture
5. Joseph J. Foy & Timothy M. Dale-"They Turned to a Man They Didn't Fully Understand": The Dark Knight and the Conservative Critique of Political Liberalism
6. Kevin S. Decker-The Vale of Top Hats: Duplicability, Duplicity and The Prestige
7. Jason Burke Murphy-Plato, Habermas, and the Demonic Cobb
8. Deborah Knight & George McKnight-"Are You Watching Closely?" Narrative Comprehension in Nolan's Early Films
Part 3: Epistemology and Metaphysics
9. Dennis Knepp-Remembering, Reminding, and Forgetting with Leonard Shelby
10. Karen D. Hoffman-False Tattoos and Failed Totems: Kierkegaard and Su
A propos de l'auteur
Janis Nuckolls is professor of anthropological linguistics at Brigham Young UniversityJanis Nuckolls is professor of anthropological linguistics at Brigham Young University
Résumé
The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan collects sixteen essays written by philosophers and film theorists analyzing moral, metaphysical, epistemological, and political themes that characterize the films of Christopher Nolan.
