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.
Tabella dei contenuti
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Genesis: From Short Film Visions to Low-Budget Monster Movie
2. 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 Documentaries
10. Cameron as Writer and Producer
Filmography
Bibliography
Index
Circa l’autore
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.
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