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The Cinema of James Cameron : Bodies in Heroic Motion / James Clarke.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Directors' CutsPublisher: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (224 p.) : 50 B&WContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780231169776
  • 9780231850629
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 791.43023092 23
LOC classification:
  • PN1998.3
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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
Summary: 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.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- 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

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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.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 02. Mrz 2022)