Isabelle Labrouillère is lecturer inperforming arts and film aesthetics at the ENSAV (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’AudioVisuel), Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.Claire Parkinson is professor of culture, communication, and screen studies at Edge Hill University.

Claire Parkinson and Isabelle Labrouillère’s collection successfully brings incisive analyses of Christopher Nolan’s auteur status and trademarks into dialogue with productive examinations of his collaborations, influences, politics, and shifting industry positions. With chapters ranging in focus from documentary and experimental shorts to landmark indies and Hollywood blockbusters, A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan is a welcome addition to contemporary film scholarship.

• SECTION 1: NARRATIVE AND TIMEChapter 1. Precursor to the Puzzle: Narrational Strategies in FollowingWarren BucklandChapter 2. ‘We Need Mirrors to Remind Ourselves of Who We Are’: Anamorphosis and the Singularity of Mirror Motifs in Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000)Isabelle LabrouillèreChapter 3. The Prestige, From Text to Screen: Transformation, Manipulation, ReflexivityGilles MenegaldoChapter 4. The Trauma Chronotype in Nolan’s Dunkirk and Inception: Time, Space and TraumaFran Pheasant-KellyChapter 5. Back From the Future: Tenet and the Politics of NachträglichkeitTodd McGowanSECTION 2: COLLABORATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPSChapter 6. “There’s a Point Where We Just Let the Music Take Over Everything”: The Collaboration of Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer”Bernadette PaceChapter 7. A “Virtual Carte Blanche”: Christopher Nolan, Warner. Bros., and Authorial Power in Contemporary HollywoodKimberly A. OwczarskiChapter 8. Transnational Filmmaker, Fanboy-Auteur: Screening Nolan’s

Isabelle Labrouillère is lecturer inperforming arts and film aesthetics at the ENSAV (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’AudioVisuel), Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.Claire Parkinson is professor of culture, communication, and screen studies at Edge Hill University.

Claire Parkinson and Isabelle Labrouillère’s collection successfully brings incisive analyses of Christopher Nolan’s auteur status and trademarks into dialogue with productive examinations of his collaborations, influences, politics, and shifting industry positions. With chapters ranging in focus from documentary and experimental shorts to landmark indies and Hollywood blockbusters, A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan is a welcome addition to contemporary film scholarship.

• SECTION 1: NARRATIVE AND TIMEChapter 1. Precursor to the Puzzle: Narrational Strategies in FollowingWarren BucklandChapter 2. ‘We Need Mirrors to Remind Ourselves of Who We Are’: Anamorphosis and the Singularity of Mirror Motifs in Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000)Isabelle LabrouillèreChapter 3. The Prestige, From Text to Screen: Transformation, Manipulation, ReflexivityGilles MenegaldoChapter 4. The Trauma Chronotype in Nolan’s Dunkirk and Inception: Time, Space and TraumaFran Pheasant-KellyChapter 5. Back From the Future: Tenet and the Politics of NachträglichkeitTodd McGowanSECTION 2: COLLABORATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPSChapter 6. “There’s a Point Where We Just Let the Music Take Over Everything”: The Collaboration of Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer”Bernadette PaceChapter 7. A “Virtual Carte Blanche”: Christopher Nolan, Warner. Bros., and Authorial Power in Contemporary HollywoodKimberly A. OwczarskiChapter 8. Transnational Filmmaker, Fanboy-Auteur: Screening Nolan’s

Isabelle Labrouillère is lecturer inperforming arts and film aesthetics at the ENSAV (Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’AudioVisuel), Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès.Claire Parkinson is professor of culture, communication, and screen studies at Edge Hill University.

Claire Parkinson and Isabelle Labrouillère’s collection successfully brings incisive analyses of Christopher Nolan’s auteur status and trademarks into dialogue with productive examinations of his collaborations, influences, politics, and shifting industry positions. With chapters ranging in focus from documentary and experimental shorts to landmark indies and Hollywood blockbusters, A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan is a welcome addition to contemporary film scholarship.

• SECTION 1: NARRATIVE AND TIMEChapter 1. Precursor to the Puzzle: Narrational Strategies in FollowingWarren BucklandChapter 2. ‘We Need Mirrors to Remind Ourselves of Who We Are’: Anamorphosis and the Singularity of Mirror Motifs in Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000)Isabelle LabrouillèreChapter 3. The Prestige, From Text to Screen: Transformation, Manipulation, ReflexivityGilles MenegaldoChapter 4. The Trauma Chronotype in Nolan’s Dunkirk and Inception: Time, Space and TraumaFran Pheasant-KellyChapter 5. Back From the Future: Tenet and the Politics of NachträglichkeitTodd McGowanSECTION 2: COLLABORATIONS AND RELATIONSHIPSChapter 6. “There’s a Point Where We Just Let the Music Take Over Everything”: The Collaboration of Christopher Nolan and Hans Zimmer”Bernadette PaceChapter 7. A “Virtual Carte Blanche”: Christopher Nolan, Warner. Bros., and Authorial Power in Contemporary HollywoodKimberly A. OwczarskiChapter 8. Transnational Filmmaker, Fanboy-Auteur: Screening Nolan’s