TY - JOUR AU - Christiansen, Steen PY - 2013/12/02 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Hyper Attention Blockbusters: Christopher Nolan’s Batman Trilogy JF - Academic Quarter | Akademisk kvarter JA - AcademicQuarter VL - 0 IS - 7 SE - DO - 10.5278/ojs.academicquarter.v0i7.2826 UR - https://journals.aau.dk/index.php/ak/article/view/2826 SP - 144-158 AB - <p class="p1">In this article, I outline a theory of attention for 21<span class="s1">st</span>-century blockbusters, emphasizing the coevolution of attention in what N. Katherine Hayles has distinguished as deep and hyper attention. Furthermore, I elaborate on this theory with a discussion of kinetics as an embodied sensation integral to blockbuster, drawing examples from Christopher Nolan’s <em>Batman </em>trilogy.</p> ER -