7 thinkers, books, and ideas connected to this field.
A 2005 film by Christopher Nolan that reboots Batman as a psychologically grounded origin story rooted in fear, theatricality, and the urban decay of Gotham.
A 1995 film by Michael Mann depicting the obsessive cat-and-mouse between a veteran LAPD detective and a meticulous professional thief across the sprawl of Los Angeles.
MAPPA's anime adaptation of Gege Akutami's manga — about a boy who swallows a cursed finger to save his classmates and must join an organization of sorcerers who fight malevolent spirits.
A 2020 film by Christopher Nolan in which a secret agent navigates a world of time-inverted objects and people to prevent a future war against the past.
A 2008 film by Christopher Nolan in which Batman faces the anarchic Joker across a sprawling, morally corroded Gotham City.
A 1968 WWII action-espionage film directed by Brian G. Hutton and starring Richard Burton and Clint Eastwood, about a team of Allied agents rescuing a general from an Alpine Nazi castle.
A 1967 James Bond film starring Sean Connery, in which Bond infiltrates a hollowed-out volcano serving as a secret SPECTRE rocket base in Japan.