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In this seminar, we will focus on recent American films that employ innovative formal devices to depict the subjective perception of their protagonists. For audiences, these formal experiments often involve a hermeneutic challenge, as they have to determine the border between reality and imagination or to unravel the actual sequence of events. Among the films to be discussed, we will consider the interplay of memory and forgetting and its implications for identity in Christopher Nolan’s Memento (2000) and Michel Gondry’s Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004). We will explore the doppelgänger motif in David Fincher’s Fight Club (1999) and Darren Aronofsky’s Black Swan (2010), and the visualisation of the protagonists’ unconscious in Nolan’s Inception (2010) and Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich (1999). |
