Narrative Structure
- Taubin, A. (2010). Dream work. Film Comment, 46(4), 30-35.An interview with film director Christopher Nolan is presented. He talks about his new film as of July 2010 titled "Inception." He discusses psychoanalysis, which is the theme of his new film. He explains the function of the character named Ariadne in the movie, which is played by actress Ellen Page, besides from being the architect of the dreamscape.
- Fisher, M. (2011). The lost unconscious: Delusions and dreams in Inception. Film Quarterly, 64(3), 37-45.An analysis of Christopher Nolan's science-fiction thriller, Inception, which relates it to Nolan's previous films and argues that the film's multilayered nest of worlds and strangely cold action sequences relate to the commodification of the psyche.
Values and Ideologies
- Winchur, D. (2012). Ideology in Christopher Nolan's Inception. CineAction, 2012(88), 44-48.Christopher Nolan's Inception is a conventional Hollywood suspense movie that completely omits any explicit reference to politics. Its narrative focuses on a corporate thief named Dom Cobb/Leonardo DiCaprio, as he frantically grapples with the aftermath of his wife's suicide, while also trying to return home to his young children.
Representation of People
- Hejduk, J. D. (2011). Facing the minotaur: "Inception" (2010) and "Aeneid" 6. Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics, 19(2), 93-104.Encounters with a fallen comrade trapped between the living and the dead, with a passionate woman whose suicide one has unintentionally caused, and with a father whose parting injunction will determine the shape of an empire: these are familiar to all readers of Aeneid 6. They also happen to be pivotal scenes in Christopher Nolan’s summer blockbuster Inception (2010).
- Vukovic, K., & Petkovic, R. (2013). Legendary Caesar and the architect Ariadne: Narrative, myth and psychology in Christopher Nolan's Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Inception. Psyart, 15.The paper begins with an overview of stylistic and narrative features of Nolan's films which consistently reveals their explicit psychological motivation. The bulk of the paper thus consists of a psychological analysis of three films (Batman Begins, The Dark Knight and Inception) as examples of Nolan's exploration of human subjectivity.
Inception and Philosophy
Talks at Google. (2011, December 25). Kyle Johnson: "Inception and Philosophy" [Video file]. Retrieved from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ginQNMiRu2w