Konrad Kirsch

This is a book on the films of Christopher Nolan, who is internationally well-known by his film Oppenheimer.The analysis of the corpus formed by Christopher Nolan's works allows us to derive its poetics. Thekey to this is provided by the magic tricks script in The Prestige. All of Nolan's films f...

Like literary texts, films often tell stories on multiple levels. Ridley Scott made an ironic reference to this when he called his legendaryscience-fiction film Blade Runner a »700-layer cake«. These buried structures are created in two ways: by elements that resonate throughout the film itself a...