Étienne Souriau was a French philosopher of aesthetics who developed systematic theories of the arts including early work on filmic ontology.
Souriau's analysis of cinema's demand on the spectator — willing suspension as an active cognitive gift — provides the philosophical framework for Nolan's interest in the ethics of cinematic illusion.
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