Christopher Nolan : filmmaker and philosopher / by Goh, Robbie B. H., 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Christopher Nolan as philosophical filmmaker : themes, methods, and influences -- The dark night : a discontented postmodernism -- Science fiction, indeterminate selves, and moral action : Inception and Interstellar -- On love and one's fellow man : towards a transcendent morality -- Film, philosophy, belief : Nolan's Men in the crowd and the "Good Will".…”
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The cinema of Christopher Nolan : imagining the impossible /

Table of Contents: “…On the Work of the Double in Christopher Nolan's The Prestige / Kwasu David Tembo -- 15. …”
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The cinema of Christopher Nolan : imagining the impossible /

Table of Contents: “…Developing an auteur through reviews: the critical surround of Christopher Nolan / Erin Hill-Parks -- 2. Cinephilia writ large: IMAX in Christopher Nolan's 'The Dark Knight' and 'The Dark Knight rises' / Allison Whitney -- 3. …”
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Modernism and time machines / by Tung, M. Charles

Table of Contents: “…Eliot, Pablo Picasso and Murray Leinster -- Alternat history and the presence of other presents : Virginia Woolf, Philip K. Dick and Christopher Nolan -- Time lags and differential pace : bullet time, William Faulkner and Jessica Hagedorn -- Temporal scale, the far future and inhuman times : foresight in Wells and Woolf, time travel in Olaf Stapledon and Terrence Malick.…”
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Politics in Gotham : the Batman universe and political thought /

Table of Contents: “…Picariello -- Deconstructing Batman's legitimacy: the radical political critique of Christopher Nolan's Batman cycle / William J. Berger -- Batman the noble dog: the costs of spiritedness for the individual and society / Ian J. …”

Space exploration on film / by Meehan, Paul, 1948-

Gothic transgressions : extension and commercialization of a cultural mode /

Table of Contents: “…Monstrous Woodcuts: Experiments with Scary Word-Image Relations in Lynd Ward's Gothic Work / Erik Redling -- "Ìt' forever": Black Hole as a Gothic Graphic Novel / Christian Schneider -- Gothic Nightmares Then and Now: The Oneiric Descents in Edgar Allan Poe's Short Stories and Falling Dreams ad extremum in Christopher Nolan's Film Inception / Ellen Redling -- Part. …”

Contemporary American science fiction film /

Table of Contents: “…Artificial intelligence (2001) / Christine Muller -- Through the lens of 9/11 : reflections of Bush era politics and the post-9/11 milieu in Minority report (2002) and V for Vendetta (2006) / Fran Pheasant Kelly -- Precarious lives, human rights and "the sense of today" : the continuing resonance and relevance of Alfonso Cuarón's Children of men (2006) / Terence McSweeney -- Seeing and touching the bodies of others : evolving the male animal toward secular moral enlightenment in the Planet of the apes reboot franchise / Carol Donelan -- Time travel, trauma and the futility of revenge in Looper (2012) / Stuart Joy -- Science fiction cinema between arthouse and blockbuster : from Stanley Kubrick's 2001 to Christopher Nolan's Interstellar (2014) / Steffen Hantke -- 21st-century Star wars : profiles in (female) courage / Stacey Peebles -- Rationality, emotionality and geopolitics in Arrival (2016) : from structural oppositions and reconciliations to mixed modalities and claims to 'quality' status / Geoff King -- "The world is built on a wall" : deconstructing Blade runner 2049 (2017) / Will Brooker -- Speculative anger and collective economic strength in Boots Riley's Sorry to bother you (2018) / Paul Petrovic -- Coping with the deconstruction of American identity : hybridization and self-destruction in Alex Garland's Annihilation (2018) / Andrew Schopp -- Wakanda forever? …”

Darkly perfect world : colonial adventure, postmodernism, and American noir / by Orr, Stanley, 1967-

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Fantastic cities : American urban spaces in science fiction, fantasy, and horror /

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Critical Moments : Fintan O'Toole on Modern Irish Theatre. by O'Toole, Fintan

Table of Contents: “…Studs, by Paul MercierOurselves Alone, by Anne Devlin; Cromwell, by Brendan Kennelly; Brownbread, by Roddy Doyle; Pentecost, by Stewart Parker; Somewhere Over the Balcony, by Marie Jones; Exit Entrance, by Aidan Mathews; Sea Urchins, by Aodhan Madden; Boss Grady's Boys, by Sebastian Barry; Carthaginians, by Frank McGuinness; Bat the Father, Rabbit the Son, by Donal O'Kelly; Departed, by Joe O'Byrne; Torchlight and Laser Beams, by Christopher Nolan and Michael Scott; Home, by Paul Mercier; Una Pooka, by Michael Harding; Wild Harvest, by Ken Bourke; King of the Castle, by Eugene McCabe.…”
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