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This book explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular
and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the
first two decades of the new millennium It offers a ground-breaking
investigation of the impactful role of genre cinema in the modern
era The book interrogates some of the defining critical debates of
the era via an in-depth analysis of a range of important films It
places one of the most popular and culturally resonant American
film genres broadly within its rich social, historical, industrial,
and political context, Brings together an international team of
authors Offering new insights and perspectives on the cinematic
science fiction genre, this volume will appeal primarily to
scholars and students of film, television, culture and media
studies, as well as anyone interested in science fiction and
speculative film
This book explores and interrogates a diverse variety of popular
and culturally relevant American science fiction films made in the
first two decades of the new millennium It offers a ground-breaking
investigation of the impactful role of genre cinema in the modern
era The book interrogates some of the defining critical debates of
the era via an in-depth analysis of a range of important films It
places one of the most popular and culturally resonant American
film genres broadly within its rich social, historical, industrial,
and political context, Brings together an international team of
authors Offering new insights and perspectives on the cinematic
science fiction genre, this volume will appeal primarily to
scholars and students of film, television, culture and media
studies, as well as anyone interested in science fiction and
speculative film
Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director
Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent
British cinema to become one of the most commercially successful
directors in Hollywood. From Following (1998) to Interstellar
(2014), Christopher Nolan's films explore philosophical concerns by
experimenting with nonlinear storytelling while also working within
classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Contextualizing
and closely reading each of his films, this collection examines the
director's play with memory, time, trauma, masculinity, and
identity, and considers the function of music and video games and
the effect of IMAX on his work.
This edited collection charts the first four seasons of Black
Mirror and beyond, providing a rich social, historical and
political context for the show. Across the diverse tapestry of its
episodes, Black Mirror has both dramatized and deconstructed the
shifting cultural and technological coordinates of the era like no
other. With each of the nineteen chapters focussing on a single
episode of the series, this book provides an in-depth analysis into
how the show interrogates our contemporary desires and anxieties,
while simultaneously encouraging audiences to contemplate the moral
issues raised by each episode. What if we could record and replay
our most intimate memories? How far should we go to protect our
children? Would we choose to live forever? What does it mean to be
human? These are just some of the questions posed by Black Mirror,
and in turn, by this volume. Written by some of the foremost
scholars in the field of contemporary film and television studies,
Through the Black Mirror explores how Black Mirror has become a
cultural barometer of the new millennial decades and questions what
its embedded anxieties might tell us.
This edited collection charts the first four seasons of Black
Mirror and beyond, providing a rich social, historical and
political context for the show. Across the diverse tapestry of its
episodes, Black Mirror has both dramatized and deconstructed the
shifting cultural and technological coordinates of the era like no
other. With each of the nineteen chapters focussing on a single
episode of the series, this book provides an in-depth analysis into
how the show interrogates our contemporary desires and anxieties,
while simultaneously encouraging audiences to contemplate the moral
issues raised by each episode. What if we could record and replay
our most intimate memories? How far should we go to protect our
children? Would we choose to live forever? What does it mean to be
human? These are just some of the questions posed by Black Mirror,
and in turn, by this volume. Written by some of the foremost
scholars in the field of contemporary film and television studies,
Through the Black Mirror explores how Black Mirror has become a
cultural barometer of the new millennial decades and questions what
its embedded anxieties might tell us.
Over the past fifteen years, writer, producer and director
Christopher Nolan has emerged from the margins of independent
British cinema to become one of the most commercially successful
directors in Hollywood. From Following (1998) to Interstellar
(2014), Christopher Nolan's films explore philosophical concerns by
experimenting with nonlinear storytelling while also working within
classical Hollywood narrative and genre frameworks. Contextualizing
and closely reading each of his films, this collection examines the
director's play with memory, time, trauma, masculinity, and
identity, and considers the function of music and video games and
the effect of IMAX on his work.
A 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.
Christopher Nolan occupies a rare realm within the Hollywood
mainstream, creating complex, original films that achieve both
critical acclaim and commercial success. In The Traumatic Screen,
Stuart Joy builds on contemporary applications of psychoanalytic
film theory to consider the function and presentation of trauma
across Nolan's work, arguing that the complexity, thematic
consistency and fragmentary nature of his films mimic the
structural operation of trauma. From 1997's Doodlebug to 2017's
Dunkirk, Nolan's films highlight cinema's ability to probe the
nature of human consciousness while commenting on the relationship
between spectator and screen. Joy examines Nolan's treatment of
trauma - both individual and collective - through the formal
construction, mise en scene and repeated themes of his films. The
argument presented is based on close textual analysis and a
methodological framework that incorporates the works of Sigmund
Freud and Jacques Lacan. The first in-depth, overtly psychoanalytic
understanding of trauma in the context of the director's
filmography, this book builds on and challenges existing
scholarship in a bold new interpretation of the Nolan canon.
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