从Memento到Insomnia到他的蝙蝠侠系列，诺兰电影里的角色总是活在一个充满谎言的世界里。角色们要不是被欺骗，要不就是自己被卷入谎言里面。诺兰的电影里都有一个他标准的机构，他总是喜欢蒙蔽观众，让观众不太知道接下来即将发生什么事，或者角色们的真实动机。当然，诺兰的电影并没有完全抛弃真想，它们只是告诉我们真相是如何从谎言中浮现出来。
《虚构的克里斯托弗诺兰》透过诺兰的电影探讨虚构如何帮我们找到真相。作者详细地分析了他的电影，并论证了虚构或者谎言总是被放在真相前面，导致我们必须重新思考自己如何看待真相。作者认为诺兰的电影透露了创造虚构，甚至谎言，在道德上以及政治上的重要性。其他导演或许希望透过电影来找出真相，但是诺兰特别投入将虚构以及谎言担任他电影的中心思想。作者认为这是我们时代的哲学电影制作，认为诺兰是一位非常黑格尔式的电影导演。
关于作者：
Todd Mcgowa是美国University of Vermont的英语副教授。他同时也叫电影以及文化理论的课程。他写过 Out of Time: Desire in Atemporal Cinema、The Real Gaze: Film Theory After Lacan, 以及 The Impossible David Lynch等书。
好评：
“I am hugely impressed with this book and strongly recommend it. Not only is this the most important work to date on Christopher Nolan, it also numbers among the very best of Todd McGowan’s already impressive list of monographs. This book will have appeal to general readers with an interest in film studies, as well as specialists invested in psychoanalytic theory (especially Lacan) and continental philosophy. This is precisely the kind of book I would require in a graduate seminar or upper-division undergraduate capstone course. As with all of Todd McGowan’s work, the book makes important but very difficult theories accessible, while not sacrificing complexity or sophistication. This is a troublesome balancing act, but McGowan makes it seem easy. Intellectually, this work is a thrill to read.”
—Hugh S. Manon, Associate Professor and Director of Screen Studies, Clark University
目录：
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: The Ethics of the Lie
- Chapter 1. The Snare of Truth: Following and the Perfect Patsy
- Chapter 2. Memento and the Desire Not to Know
- Chapter 3. The Dirty Cop: Insomnia and the Art of Detection
- Chapter 4. The Banal Superhero: The Politicized Realism of Batman Begins
- Chapter 5. The Violence of Creation in The Prestige
- Chapter 6. The Hero’s Form of Appearance: The Necessary Darkness of The Dark Knight
- Chapter 7. A Plea for the Abandonment of Reality in Inception
- Conclusion: Lying without Consequence
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index