Analysis of the corpus formed by Christopher Nolan's works allows us to derive its poetics. The key to this is provided by the magic tricks script in THE PRESTIGE. All of Nolan's films from INSOMNIA onwards are influenced by this aspect. The Joker in THE DARK KNIGHT turns out to be the embodiment of neoliberalism, and in THE DARK KNIGHT RISES, we see Bane, a populist who benefits from the destruction that his neoliberalism wreaks. INCEPTION is an allegory of filmmaking entirely shaped by the script of magic tricks. INTERSTELLAR and TENET are about how humanity reacts to the climate catastrophe: in INTERSTELLAR, all that remains for humanity is to flee into space; in TENET, Nolan allows future generations, whose livelihoods we are destroying, to fight back against the present. Other key themes include: the attack on the Kiev Opera in TENET and the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine in 2022; INCEPTION and SOLARIS by Andrei Tarkovsky; the dead female characters in Nolan's films and Edgar Allan Poe's THE PHILOSOPHY OF COMPOSITION; Hieronymus Bosch's painting THE ASCENT OF THE BLESSED, the Resurrection and other de-transcended motifs in Nolan's films; the planes; the evacuation in DUNKIRK; INTERSTELLAR, and Zack Snyder's MAN OF STEEL. A digression is concerned with the James Bond film SKYFALL by Sam Mendes. Against the background of changing gender relations, Bond is looking for a new identity. Silva's homosexuality is a cipher for misogyny, and the femicide on Sévérine is a reference to the death of Joan Vollmer Burroughs. This includes an explanation of why Bond has to do without his Beretta in Terence Young's DR NO and is instead accompanied through his film series by the ›triumvirate‹ of the Walther PPK, the Aston Martin, and the Vodka Martini. These findings are looked at in relation to Daniel Craig's subsequent Bond films. An English version of this book will follow.weiterlesen