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    Representing Trauma: Grief, Amnesia and Traumatic Memory in Nolan’s New Millennial Films’

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    Authors
    Furby, Jacqueline
    Joy, Stuart
    Editors
    Pheasant-Kelly, Frances
    Issue Date
    2015-07
    
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    A consistent preoccupation of Christopher Nolan’s films is the psychological afflictions of their male protagonists, who variously experience flashbacks, hallucinations, amnesia or hyper-vigilance, and whose signs of emotional damage often stem from grief or guilt. However, mental trauma is not only a trait of Nolan’s films but is discernible across a range of genres, with a noticeable surge of psychologically disordered male characters in films of the new millennium. Akin to their post-war noir predecessors, such representations of masculinity suggest that the unstable mental state of the twenty-first century protagonist may relate to the effects of a post-9/11 milieu. What makes Nolan’s oeuvre distinctive is that his new millennium films tend to be fore-grounded by this feature, to the extent that mental aberration governs the narrative, thereby implying such characterisation as an authorial tendency. As Will Brooker notes, ‘Nolan’s authorial interest in psychological drama, his recurring themes of fear and memory and his characteristic experiments with narrative have now become established traits’ (2012: 22).
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    In: Jacqueline Furby (Author); The Cinema of Christopher Nolan: Imagining the Impossible, Chapter 7, p99
    Publisher
    Columbia University Press
    URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/2436/620261
    Type
    Chapter in book
    Language
    en
    ISBN
    9780231173971
    Sponsors
    University of Wolverhampton
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