Christopher Nolan on Story and Construction
Eyes on Cinema. (2014, September 19). Christopher Nolan on story and construction in Memento (2000) [Interview]
Representations of Memory Loss
- Content, R. (2003). Reviews: Memento. Film Quarterly, 56(4), 36-41. doi:10.1525/fq.2003.56.4.36The core concern of director Christopher Nolan's Memento (2000) is the psychological denial of personal iniquity and memory loss. Nolan explores the peculiarities of Leonard's anterograde memory loss and its role in the the pursuit of his wife's murderer.
- Jonathan D. Redmond. (2013). Memento: Elementary Phenomena and the Delusion of Interpretation. Culture/Clinic, 1, 121-139. doi:10.5749/cultclin.1.2013.0121In this essay, I discuss how Lacanian accounts of psychosis can be developed through an analysis of the film Memento (2000) and, in
particular, by a focus upon the character, Leonard. Specifically, I argue that Leonard’s perplexity, shown in the context of his encounter with enigmatic signifiers that he has inscribed upon his body, can be situated in relation to the mechanism of foreclosure rather than the neurological condition—anterograde amnesia—that Leonard provides as the mechanism underlying his memory loss.
Style and Aesthetics
- Jackson, T. (2007). "Graphism" and Story-time in "Memento" Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, 40(3), 51-66. Retrieved from http://www.jstor.org.db.plcscotch.wa.edu.au/stable/44030264This essay brings together theories of writing as a technology and theories of cognitive semantics with the film Memento in order to make that case that cinema disembodies the human sense of the story-time.