For all its praise, the film furthers the dominant narrative of the bombs as a morally fraught but necessary project, with American anxieties playing a starring role.
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From Mean Streets to The Exorcist and Badlands, 1973 was a year that showcased the audacious talent in Hollywood that was experimenting with darker themes and new film techniques.
The Christopher Nolan film ‘Oppenheimer’ is set to become a summer blockbuster. But one of the featured sites in the movie is a sobering reminder of the horror of nuclear war.
As my seat shakes from the stereo effects, nobody in the nearly-full cinema flinches. The teenagers to my right are as used to explosions as J. Robert Oppenheimer himself.
Christopher Nolan’s film is the latest of many portrayals of the famous theoretical physicist. Here are five of the most intriguing.
The subject of the new Christoper Nolan film, Robert Oppenheimer, is often placed next to Albert Einstein as the 20th century’s most famous physicist.
Despite seismic cultural shifts since the last movie, the 2022 version of Batman seems to be trotting out the same old tropes.
Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction when it comes to the magicians of the Victorian era.
Like Stanley Kubrick before him, Christopher Nolan uses perspective to mess with our minds in his 2010 film Inception.
This is a film of big ideas. Audiences are required to pay attention, but the rewards are considerable.
In the lead-up to Nolan’s new film Tenet, Inception is being re-released in cinemas. Even after ten years, the movie still holds surprises..
Two big battles which turned the tide of World War II can tell us a great deal about some important present-day challenges.
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Associate Professor, Film Studies, University of Sydney
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Associate Professor of French Studies, University of Adelaide
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Reader, History, Glasgow Caledonian University
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Senior Lecturer (Media Studies and Production), University of Southern Queensland
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Postdoctoral fellow, Victorian literature and magic, University of Portsmouth
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Lecturer in Screen & Performance, School of Business and Creative Industries, University of the West of Scotland
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Associate Professor in English and American Literature, Nottingham Trent University
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Historian, Australian Catholic University
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PhD Candidate, School of Modern Languages and Social Anthropology, University of St Andrews
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Associate Professor of Disaster and Emergency Management, York University, Canada
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Head of Film & TV, University of South Wales
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Professor of History, Michigan State University
