The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan

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<span><span>As a director, writer, and producer, Christopher Nolan has substantially impacted contemporary cinema through</span><span>avant garde</span><span> films, such as</span><span>Following</span><span> and</span><span>Memento</span><span>, and his contribution to wider pop culture with his</span><span>Dark Knight</span><span> trilogy. His latest film,</span><span>Interstellar</span><span>, delivered the same visual qualities and complex, thought-provoking plotlines his audience anticipates.</span><span>The Philosophy of Christopher Nolan</span><span> collects sixteen essays, written by professional philosophers and film theorists, discussing themes such as self-identity and self-destruction, moral choice and moral doubt, the nature of truth and its value, whether we can trust our perceptions of whats real, the political psychology of heroes and villains, and what it means to be a viewer of Nolans films. Whether his protagonists are squashing themselves like a bug, struggling to create an identity and moral purpose for themselves, suffering from their own duplicitous plots, donning a mask that both strikes fear and reveals their true nature, or having to weigh the lives of those they love against the greater good, there are no simple solutions to the questions Nolans films provoke; exploring these questions yields its own reward.</span></span>

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<span><span>Jason T. Eberl</span><span>is Semler Endowed Chair for Medical Ethics and professor of philosophy at Marian University.</span></span><br><br><span><span>George A. Dunn</span><span>lectures in philosophy and religion at the University of Indianapolis and the Ningbo Institute of Technology in Zhejiang Province.</span></span>

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