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James Cameron
Interviews with the acclaimed director of such films as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Titanic, and Avatar
The Films of James Cameron
Among the most expensive—and most profitable—films of all time, the works of James Cameron have had a profound effect upon popular culture and the technology of moviemaking. Yet the very blockbuster nature of his films means that the political commentary, cultural discourse and rich symbolism within the works are often overlooked. From The Terminator to Avatar, the director has evinced a persistence of themes, concerns and visions that capture the contemporary zeitgeist. This collection of essays on James Cameron’s films, written by a diverse group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines, provides a comprehensive exploration of the work and legacy of one of America’s foremost filmmakers.
James Cameron
Featuring excerpts from interviews and frame-by-frame analysis of important scenes from films such as Terminator, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic, Alexandra Keller provides the first critical study of James Cameron as an auteur. Considering in particular his treatment of gender and preoccupation with capital, both in his films and his filmmaking practice, Keller offers an overview of Cameron's work and its significance within cinematic history. Sections in the book include: Chronology Key Debates Key Scenes Sources Resources. This is a fascinating insight into the work of one of Hollywood's top directors, and will prove invalubale to students of film studies and media studies all over the English-speaking world.
James Cameron
James Cameron is the most successful filmmaker of all time by some margin, which is something we tend to take for granted. The question at the heart of the book isn't only how this came about, but what is it about Cameron that makes him such a universal storyteller? Cinema has had its godlike directors, lifting it up into new spaces, but he is their Zeus--the man who made the biggest film of all time then topped that by making the next biggest film of all time. This book encapsulates not only the magnitude of James Cameron as a filmmaker but the minutiae too - the incredible stories of an artist whose commitment to the medium knows few bounds. The tales behind the films are as epic as the films themselves. The incredible making of The Abyss, much of it shot submerged in a decommissioned nuclear plant, could fill a book on its own. This is a film-by-film biography of the most popular director of all time.
James Cameron
Describes the life of James Cameron, director of the successful movie, Titanic.
James Cameron
This book covers the life and career of filmmaker and explorer James Cameron. The volume examines his early life and career, as well as his making of the successful films Terminator, Titanic, and Avatar. The book also delves into Cameron's ocean expeditions. Readers will be inspired by this Emmy and Academy Award-winning personality.
James Cameron
Director of some of the largest grossing movies of all time, including Titanic, Avatar, Terminator, and more.
James Cameron: A Biography
ABOUT THE BOOK It was 1982. A then-twenty-seven-year-old James Cameron, recently fired by producer Roger Corman from the Rome-based set of schlocky B movie Piranha II: The Spawning, had been staying in an Italian pensione hotel, his pay for the film exhausted, stealing hard rolls from room-service trays for sustenance. Wracked by fever, one night he dreamed of a “chrome skeleton, emerging out of a fire,” cut in half, dragging itself after a woman. As he later told The New Yorker, he thought, “That was cool. I’d never seen that in a movie before.” Of course, the “chrome skeleton” was “the terminator,” and the woman was Sarah Connor--not a victim, as it turns out, but the fir...
The Cinema of James Cameron
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.
A Critical Companion to James Cameron
This book is a comprehensive, current scholarly analysis of the works of one of the world’s most renowned and successful filmmakers. Written by some of the top scholars working in film and media studies, philosophy, and literature, the seventeen chapters in this book illuminate the entire artistic career of James Cameron.
