{"product_id":"9783869050379","title":"From Doodlebug to Oppenheimer","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis is a book on the films of Christopher Nolan, who is internationally well-known by his film \u003ci\u003eOppenheimer.\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe analysis of the corpus formed by Christopher Nolan's works allows us to derive its poetics. The\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ekey to this is provided by the magic tricks script in \u003ci\u003eThe Prestige\u003c\/i\u003e. All of Nolan's films from \u003ci\u003eInsomnia\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eonwards are influenced by this aspect. The analysis not only shows how outstanding Nolan's films\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eare, but they also prove to be surprisingly political. Other key topics in this analysis: the attack on the Kiev Opera house in \u003ci\u003eTenet\u003c\/i\u003e and the Russian war against Ukraine in 2022; the references in \u003ci\u003eInception\u003c\/i\u003e on Andrei Tarkovsky's \u003ci\u003eSolaris\u003c\/i\u003e; the relation of the dead female characters in Nolan's films to Edgar Allan Poe's \u003ci\u003eThe Philosophy of Composition\u003c\/i\u003e; in Nolan's later films, the canary birds of \u003ci\u003eThe Prestige\u003c\/i\u003e transformed into planes; the escape from earth in \u003ci\u003eInterstellar\u003c\/i\u003e complemented by the evacuation in \u003ci\u003eDunkirk\u003c\/i\u003e; the interdependencies between \u003ci\u003eInterstellar\u003c\/i\u003e and Zack Snyder's \u003ci\u003eMan of Steel\u003c\/i\u003e; neoliberalism reflected in Michael Mann's thriller \u003ci\u003eThief\u003c\/i\u003e; the allusions in \u003ci\u003eTenet\u003c\/i\u003e on the James Bond film \u003ci\u003eSkyfall\u003c\/i\u003e by Sam Mendes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Konrad Kirsch","offers":[{"title":"Edition Axel Menges |  Hardback  |  2025-01-01","offer_id":46012044869887,"sku":"9783869050379","price":77.0,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0329\/9075\/7001\/files\/BNCImageAPI_00570554-5b0a-4014-a3ed-b528bd16cd09.jpg?v=1730618825","url":"https:\/\/riverbookshop.com\/products\/9783869050379","provider":"River Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}