[Commlist] New Book: The Traumatic Screen: The Films of Christopher Nolan

Intellect is pleased to announce that */The Traumatic Screen: The Films 
of Christopher Nolan 
<https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-traumatic-screen>/*, by Stuart 
Joy, is now available in ebook, paperback and hardback.

Christopher Nolan occupies a rare realm within the Hollywood mainstream, 
creating complex, original films that achieve both critical acclaim and 
commercial success. In /The Traumatic Screen/, Stuart Joy builds on 
contemporary applications of psychoanalytic film theory to consider the 
function and presentation of trauma across Nolan’s work, arguing that 
the complexity, thematic consistency and fragmentary nature of his films 
mimic the structural operation of trauma.

 From 1997’s Doodlebug to 2017’s Dunkirk, Nolan’s films highlight 
cinema’s ability to probe the nature of human consciousness while 
commenting on the relationship between spectator and screen. Joy 
examines Nolan’s treatment of trauma – both individual and collective – 
through the formal construction, mise en scène and repeated themes of 
his films. The argument presented is based on close textual analysis and 
a methodological framework that incorporates the works of Sigmund Freud 
and Jacques Lacan. The first in-depth, overtly psychoanalytic 
understanding of trauma in the context of the director’s filmography, 
this book builds on and challenges existing scholarship in a bold new 
interpretation of the Nolan canon.


*_Table of Contents_*

*Introduction*

*1. *The Traumatic Screen: Trauma, Psychoanalysis and Cinema

*2.* Revisiting the Scene of the Crime: Repressing the Past in Insomnia

*3.* Batman Begins, Again: The Temporality of Trauma in The Dark Knight 
Trilogy

*4. *Looking for the Secret: The Intersection between Trauma and Desire 
in The Prestige

*5.* The Dream has Become Their Reality: Acting-Out and Working-Through 
Trauma in Inception

*6.* Beyond the Void: Interstellar and the Possibilities of 
Post-Traumatic Growth

*7.* Keep Calm and Carry On: Combating Collective Trauma in Dunkirk

*Conclusion* – Ending at the Beginning with Doodlebug, Following and Memento


Please visit our website for more information:
www.intellectbooks.com/the-traumatic-screen 
<http://www.intellectbooks.com/the-traumatic-screen>

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