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1	The Existentialism Behind Nolan's Batman Walker, Kaylin Marie January 2012 (has links) Thesis advisor: John Michalczyk / Despite a long affiliation with film dating back to the French New Wave, existentialism has remained a fascination reserved for art film producers and intellectual viewers for decades. In the early twenty-first century, director Christopher Nolan’s Batman trilogy marked the first time existentialism bubbled over from niche art films into the most blatant form of popular culture: the summer blockbuster. This analysis explores Batman Begins and The Dark Knight as up-to-date pictures of modern existentialism, embodied by Bruce Wayne’s journey through fear, chaos and rebirth, mirroring the existentialist advancement through uncertainty to freedom and self-creation. / Thesis (BA) — Boston College, 2012. / Submitted to: Boston College. College of Arts and Sciences. / Discipline: College Honors Program. / Discipline: College Honors Program. existentialism philosophy Christopher Nolan Batman The Dark Knight popular culture
2	"It's What You Do That Defines You": Batman as Moral Philosopher Johnson, Vilja Olivia 14 March 2011 (has links) (PDF) In 2008, Christopher Nolan's The Dark Knight became the most commercially successful comic book adaptation to date. His film, which highlights the humanity and fallibility of Batman, builds on a long character history while also functioning as an individual work. Nolan's depiction of Batman, which follows a long progression towards postmodernism in graphic novel versions of the character, is just one of multiple filmic superhero representations in recent years to depict a darker side of the "superhero" mythos. These films highlight the humanity and fallibility of these heroic figures and place their actions under scrutiny. In Nolan's two Batman films, this approach allows the central character to reflect the moral complexity of postmodern society. As a result of his humanity, Batman must sometimes choose between two negative outcomes; as he does so, he places various moral systems under pressure and tests them. When Batman makes decisions, he must discard some values in favor of others, and in the process, he reveals his personal priorities. Through the decisions he makes in critical moments in the films, Nolan's Batman acts against "traditional" Batman archetypes which suggest that the hero's actions consistently adhere to one of the following principles: a lust for revenge, a desire to prevent future harm, or a vow not to kill. What eventually emerges as Batman's guiding principle in these latest films is not an ethical system per se, but rather a simple desire to thwart the goals of his enemies. Through this oppositional morality, Batman has the moral flexibility to avoid the dangerous ethical extremes of his enemies. This approach to crime also places the superhero's morality in the hands of his enemies, leading Batman to make troubling decisions as he attempts to stop the villains. Because Batman follows no single moral code consistently, the only way he ultimately differentiates himself from the villains of Gotham is through his belief in the city's potential for good, a belief which all of his enemies have abandoned. Batman Christopher Nolan The Dark Knight moral philosophy English Language and Literature
3	"And Here We Go" / : En undersökning av parallellklippningens påverkan för att bygga upp spänning i The Dark Knight (2008) Hermansson, Elin January 2018 (has links) Syftet med den här uppsatsen är att undersöka om och isfall hur parallellklippning bidrar till att skapa spänning i filmen The Dark Knight (2008). Tre scener som visar på tre olika stadier av spänning har analyserats för att se vilken påverkan parallellklippningen har för att skapa spänning samt hur dessa parallella handlingar binds ihop och om det finns någon primär handling. Med hjälp av Moritz Lehne och Stefan Koelsch undersökning om spänningens komponenter samt valda klipptekniker undersöks vilken påverkan parallellklippningen har för att skapa spänning. David Bordwell och Kristin Thompson teori om fyra dimensioner av klippning används för att undersöka hur de parallella handlingarna binds ihop. För att svara på om det finns någon primär handling används ett tidslinjediagram över parallellklippningen i scenerna. Resultatet av undersökningen visar att parallellklippningen har bidragit till att skapa spänning i The Dark Knight men är endast en faktor av flera som bygger spänning. Genom att kombinera parallellklippning med dramatisk betoning och rytm skapas spänning. De parallella handlingarna binds ihop genom att fokusområdet bibehålls över klippet vilket skapar ett flyt i bildflödet. De primära handlingarna i scenerna visas genom den frekventa återkopplingen till just denna handling. parallellklippning klippning film spänning The Dark Knight dramatisk betoning rytm Visual Arts Bildkonst
4	All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy. : En analys av the Jokers ondska kopplat till hans narrativ. Landahl, Henrik January 2021 (has links) In my essay, I illuminate evil from the perspective of whether we can explain evil deeds through the perpetrator's narrative. As an object for my study, I have chosen a popular culture perspective - the character The Joker - which has been portrayed several times. The purpose of the essay is to study if we understand and can come to terms with evil deeds if we also know the perpetrator's narrative. The starting point for this reasoning is the question of whether evil deeds can always be defined as evil? I have limited my thesis to be based on theories based on traditional and historical research in the field of evil. The material I have used for my analysis is limited to the shape of The Joker in the script of the films The Dark Knight and The Joker. Methodologically, the essay is based on textual idea analysis - around evil and myths. Out of the scripts of The Joker and The Dark Knight I have developed a hypothesis which I finally discuss the reasonableness and test logically. Theoretically, I have based my study on Lars Svendsen's analysis of evil, John Martin Fischer's analysis of the meaning of the narrative and Claudia Card's discussion of grey areas. Based on these, I have analysed, discussed and argued to test my hypothesis and answer the question of the essay: Is The Joker's narrative an explanation for his evil deeds? The study's method and analysis have generated a result that shows that this is not the case. The Joker has made his own free choices that have made him who he is and what he does. His narrative is not an explanation for his demonic evil deeds. The Joker The Dark Knight Evil Narrative John Martin Fischer Lars Svendsen Claudia Card Ethics Etik
5	Batman: En musikalisk berättelse : En analys av filmerna Batman: The Movie, Batman och The Dark Knight Bohlin, Benjamin January 2017 (has links) Syftet med uppsatsen är att analysera hur filmmusiken har använts i Batman: The Movie (1966), Batman (1989) och The Dark Knight (2008). Att se en narrativ användning och beskrivning av Batman samt hur upplevelsen av filmen ändras när man ser den utan musik. Kompositörerna till filmerna är, för Batman: The Movie (1966) Nelson Riddle, till Batman (1989) är det Danny Elfman och till The Dark Knight (2008) är kompositörerna Hans Zimmer och James Newton Howard. Filmerna analyserats från ett multimodalt perspektiv och delar in filmmusiken i filmmusikens berättarfunktioner framtagna av Johnny Wingstedt Scenerna har setts på flera gånger både med och utan musik för att få fram musikens roll och betydelse. En scen per film analyseras. Scenerna är valda på så sätt att de beskriver Batman som karaktär på ett bra sätt. Scenerna beskrivs tydligt och en analys görs innan det avslutas med en konklusion. Scenerna jämförs sedan med varandra för att se likheter och skillnader. Batman Batman: The Movie The Dark Knight Filmmusik Nelson Riddle Danny Elfman Hans Zimmer James Newton Howard Media and Communication Technology Medieteknik
6	Med staden i förgrunden : Gotham City enligt Christopher Nolan / The City in the Foreground : Gotham According to Christopher Nolan Wiklund, Frans January 2020 (has links) I denna uppsats undersöks den visuella gestaltningen av Gotham City i regissören Christopher Nolans The Dark Knight Trilogy med hjälp av en komparativ analysmetod. De berättelser som utspelat sig i Gotham och Batmans relation till staden har genom åren givit den en viss karaktär. Gotham har framförallt varit platsen där brott begås och Batman bekämpar dem. Dessa karaktärsdrag har i ett antal filmer gestaltats av en mängd olika personer inom i stort sätt alla visuella medier som existerar, alla med sin egen vision av hur staden ser ut. I tidiga filmtolkningar så var gestaltningen av staden återhållsam medan den i senare gestaltats som en dystopisk mardröm. När Nolan tog sig an Batmans värld valde han istället att förankra sin vision i realismen. Men när trilogin ses i sin helhet blir det tydligt att gestaltningen av staden skiljer sig åt mellan filmerna och att varje film visar upp en ny sida av den. Med en syn på Nolans konstnärskap som grundar sig i auteurteorin men med urban studies som huvudsakliga teoretiska perspektiv undersöks i denna uppsats hur gestaltningarna av staden skiljer sig åt mellan filmerna, hur dessa skillnader påverkar vår uppfattning av staden och filmernas narrativ samt i vilket utsträckning gestaltningarna är ett resultat av Nolans vision. urban studies batman gotham city christopher nolan the dark knight trilogy auteurteori Humanities and the Arts Humaniora och konst Studies on Film Filmvetenskap
7	American Masculinity in Crisis: Trauma and Superhero Blockbusters Mason, Lizabeth Dutilly 18 August 2010 (has links) No description available. American Studies Masculinity Superhero Films American National Identity Trauma The Dark Knight Iron Man Hancock The Male Body Jungian Archetypes and Insidious Trauma
8	Frank Miller's Ideals of Heroism Jones, Stephen Matthew 18 May 2007 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This project responds to previous available literature on the subject of heroism, which tends to deal with either an isolated work or with genre- and archetype-specific analysis, and applies their concepts to case studies of Frank Miller’s various heroic models. In particular, this project addresses the film Sin City and the graphic novel The Dark Knight Strikes Again, arguing that DK2 serves as a departure of sorts from Miller’s ideals of heroism in his middle years (such as those presented in Sin City), as the protagonist becomes more of a revolutionary engaged in revamping society than the vigilante or “lone wolf” on the fringes of society. With the aforementioned sources as a general background, it is evident that Miller’s heroic ideals shift in their active capacity and scope but remain more or less steady in their strong individual sense of ethical duty. In addition, these sources aid in establishing the comparisons Miller actually invites to traditional, “archetypal” understandings of the hero as well as to the particular heroic form of Ayn Rand, which he explicitly references in DK2. Miller’s response to these previous models bolsters the assertion that theories of heroic ideals are inherently political as they deal with representations of the kind of person a hero must be, in turn involving issues of gender, ethnicity and class. batman sin city robert rodriguez frank miller adaptation movie film graphic novel comics ayn rand superhero hero 300 martha washington daredevil elektra ronin dark knight Heroes in literature
9	Nine Lives: A History of Cat Women, Subversive Femininity, and Transgressive Archetypes in Film Barnett, Katrina 08 1900 (has links) The intention of this thesis is to identify and analyze the cat woman archetype as a contemporary extension of the transgressive witch archetype, which rampantly appears over the course of cinema history, working as a signifier of a patriarchal society's fear of autonomous and subversive women. The character of Catwoman is the ultimate representation for this archetype on grounds of her visibility, longevity, and ability to return again and again. More importantly, Catwoman and her sisterhood of cat women work against male creators as a means of female empowerment through trickery. Within this thesis, key films of varying genres are drawn from throughout cinema history and analyzed in order to demonstrate the intertextual network of characters that make up the cat woman archetype, and the importance of the Catwoman character in her many forms. Catwoman subversive women witches femme fatale female archetypes in film cats and women cat goddess female sexuality strong willed women female laughter womens laughter unruly women patriarchal storytelling batman returns bringing up baby war of the roses that darn cat bell book and candle cat people the dark knight rises batman television curse of the cat people tomb of ligeia the blue bird cat girl gale sondergaard michelle pfieffer anne hathaway eartha kitt julie newmar halle berry nastassja kinski paul schrader tim burton island of lost souls panther woman katharine hepburn cary grant christopher nolan female resurrection Cinema Gender Studies Women's Studies

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