The Cinema of James Cameron - Bodies in Heroic Motion

Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-231-16976-9
Verlag: Wallflower Press

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 168 mm x 237 mm, Gewicht: 442 g

Reihe: Directors' Cuts

This timely volume explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron. It couches Cameron's films within the evolving generic traditions of science fiction, melodrama, and the cinema of spectacle. The book also considers Cameron's engagement with the aesthetic of visual effects and the 'now' technology of performance-capture which is arguably moving a certain kind of event-movie cinema from photography to something more akin to painting. This book is explicit in presenting Cameron as an authentic auteur, and each chapter is dedicated to a single film in his body of work, from The Terminator to Avatar. Space is also given to discussion of Strange Days as well as his short films and documentary works.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Clarke, James

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmproduktion, Filmtechnik
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Einzelne Filmschauspieler, Filmregisseure, Drehbuchautoren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Genesis: From Short Film Visions to Low-Budget Monster Movie2. The Terminator (1984)3. Aliens (1986)4. The Abyss (1989)5. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)6. True Lies (1994)7. Titanic (1997)8. Avatar (2009)9. Cameron's Documentaries10. Cameron as Writer and ProducerFilmographyBibliographyIndex

Über Autor(innen)

James Clarke is a UK-based film writer, contributing to numerous cinema-related publications. He has also taught Film Studies and designed Screenwriting courses at UK universities.