The philosophy of Christopher Nolan. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Jason T. Eberl and George A. Dunn.
• Authors: Eberl, Jason T
• Editors: Eberl, Jason T; Dunn, George A, 1957-
• Contents: Part 1: Moral Philosophy ; <span style="Deceit, Desire, and Mimetic Doubling in the Films of Christopher Nolan ; <span style="line-height:2">2. Jason T. Eberl—“So You Can Be My ‘John G.’”: Moral Culpability in <span style="font-style:italic;">Memento ; <span style=" <span style="font-style:italic;">Insomnia and the Struggle for Purity of Heart ; <span style=" George A. Dunn—Love, Value, and the Human Destiny in <span style="font-style:italic;">Interstellar ; Part 2: Politics and Culture ; <span style=" Timothy M. Dale—“They Turned to a Man They Didn’t Fully Understand”: <span style="font-style:italic;"> The Dark Knight and the Conservative Critique of Political Liberalism ; <span style="The Vale of Top Hats: Duplicability, Duplicity and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Prestige ; <span style="Plato, Habermas, and the Demonic Cobb ; <span style="line-height:2">8. Deborah Knight & George McKnight—“Are You Watching Closely?” Narrative Comprehension in Nolan’s Early Films ; Part 3: Epistemology and Metaphysics ; <span style="Remembering, Reminding, and Forgetting with Leonard Shelby ; <span style="line-height:2">10. Karen D. Hoffman—False Tattoos and Failed Totems: Kierkegaard and Subjective Truth in <span style="font-style:italic;">Memento and <span style="font-style:italic;">Inception ; <span style=" <span style="font-style:italic;">Inception and Perception: What Should A Dream Thief Believe? ; <span style="Spinning Tops and Brains in Vats: Nolan’s <span style="font-style:italic;">Inception and Nozick’s “Experience Machine” ; Part 4: Time and Selfhood ; <span style="“You Don’t Know Who You Are”: Imagining the Self in the Films of Christopher Nolan ; <span style="line-height:2">14. David LaRocca —“Memory Man”: The Constitution of Personal Identity in <span style="font-style:italic;">Memento ; <span style="Engaging Otherness through <span style="font-style:italic;">Following : Subjectivity and Contemporary Film Spectatorship ; <span style="We Are the Change That We Seek: The Subjectivity of Substance in <span style="font-style:italic;">Interstellar ; <span style="line-height:2">Bibliography
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustration (black and white)
• Subjects: 791.430233092; Social Science: Popular Culture; Philosophy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498513531
• Related ISBNs: 9781498513524
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