The Dark Knight (2008)

Batman raises the stakes in his war on crime. With the help of Lt. Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as the Joker.

Screenplay

Craig Byrne
The Dark Knight, Featuring production art and full shooting script
New York, 2008

Books with substantial mentioning of The Dark Knight

		Mark S. Reinhart The Batman Filmography, Second Edition Jefferson, North Carolina and London, 2013

		Hilary White (ed.) Magill's Cinema Annual 2009, 28th Edition. A Survey of the films of 2008 Detroit, [..], 2009

Articles on The Dark Knight

Chris Hewitt, Helen O'Hara & Jeff Goldsmith, Superheroes!, Here to Save Hollywood, in: Empire, nr. 209 (November), 2006 pp. 77-105

Dan Jolin, The Joker, in: Empire, nr. 246 (December), 2009 pp. 130-132

Jonathan Nolan, The Dark Knight, in: Empire, nr. 253 (July), 2010 pp. 102-104

David Bullen, Dionysus Comes to Gotham: Forces of Disorder in The Dark Knight (2008), in: Monica S. Cyrino and Meredith E. Safran (eds.), Classical myth on screen, New York, 2015

Felicitas Kleiner, Der Held, den Gotham verdient, Christopher Nolans "Batman"-Trilogie, in: Filmdienst, nr. 16 (2. August), 2012 pp. 25-28

The Dark Knight
United States / United Kingdom 2008

Directed by

Cast

Gary Oldman