Mementos of the afternoon : Christopher Nolan's ambiguous debt to Maya Deren

Brooker, Will (2023) Mementos of the afternoon : Christopher Nolan's ambiguous debt to Maya Deren. In: Parkinson, Claire and Labrouillère, Isabelle, (eds.) A critical companion to Christopher Nolan. Lanham. U.S. : Lexington Books. pp. 213-228. ISBN 9781793652515

Abstract

This chapter identifies the connections between Christopher Nolan's Memento and Maya Deren's short film Meshes of the Afternoon, and discusses Memento's relation to experimental cinema as well as 1940s noir. It draws on Meshes of the Afternoon to propose a new reading of protagonist Leonard Shelby's identity crisis.

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