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author: Lorenza Di Francesco (Dipartimento di Comunicazione ed Economia, Università di Modena e Reggio Emilia (IT))

Between being and acting. The thousand faces of fear in Christopher Nolan's Batman trilogy

language: italian

abstract: The aim of this study is a semiotic analysis of the Nolan's Batman series (Batman Begins/2005, The Dark Knight/2008, The Dark Knight Rises/2012). It goes over dimension of figural, space and passion in order to highlight fear as a complex, primitive and moving passion that guides characters transformation, actions and narrative construction of these three movies.

citation information: Lorenza Di Francesco, Tra essere e agire. I mille volti della paura nella trilogia di Batman di Christopher Nolan, "Ocula", vol.15, January 2014. DOI: 10.12977/ocula59

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