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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.
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.
This multimodal approach to linguistic landscapes examines the role
of linguistic and semiotic regimes in constructing landscape
affect. Affect, as distinct from emotion, is object-oriented, and
can be analysed in terms of structures of language and signs which
operate on individuals and groups in specific spatial settings.
Analysing a series of landscape types - including 'kawaii',
'reverenced', 'romance', 'friendly', 'luxury' and 'digital'
landscapes - Lionel Wee and Robbie B. H. Goh explore how language
plays a crucial role in shaping affective responses to, and
interactions with, space. This linguistic and semiotic construction
of different spaces also involves cultural contestations and
modulations in spatial responses, and the book offers an account of
the different conditions under which 'affective economies' gain or
lose momentum.
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