Salvation from Illusion, Salvation by Illusion: The Gospel According to Christopher Nolan
That science fiction implicitly conveys religious world views is evident in the cinematic corpus of writer-director Christopher Nolan. The Prestige, Inception, and Nolans Batman trilogy represent a variation on Gnosticism, in that salvation comes from a secret way of seeing the world. Nolans vision,...
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[2014]
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Implicit religion
Year: 2014, Volume: 17, Issue: 4, Pages: 405-416 |
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post-modernism
B Christopher Nolan B Science fiction films B NOLAN, Christopher, 1970- B RELIGION & literature B Implicit Religion B Gnosticism B INCEPTION (Film) B PRESTIGE, The (Film) B Pseudo-Gnosticism B Science Fiction |
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