The films of James Cameron
Subtitle: critical essays
By: edited by Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Stephen McVeigh
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers; McFarland
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 229
ISBN-13: 9780786462797
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation
Description: "The works of James Cameron have had a profound effect upon popular culture and the technology of moviemaking. This collection of essays on 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"--Provided by publisher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: persistence of visions-approaching the films of James Cameron / Stephen McVeigh and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell; title: Surveying James Cameron's reluctant political commentaries: 1984-2009 / Stephen McVeigh and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell; title: Fighting the history wars on the big screen: from The terminator to Avatar / Ace G. Pilkington; title: "She's a goddam liar": perspectives on the truth in Aliens and Titanic / Andrew B. R. Elliott; title: Art, image and spectacle in high concept cinema / Bruce Isaacs; title: "You have to look with better eyes than that": a filmmaker's ambivalence to technology / Elizabeth Rosen; title: "So what's your story?" morphing myths and feminizing archetypes from The terminator to Avatar / Dean Conrad; title: Between Aliens and Avatar: mapping the shifting terrain of the struggle for women's rights / Elisa Narminio and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell; title: Terminators, Aliens, and Avatars: the emergence of archetypal homosexual themes in a filmmaker's imagination / Roger Kaufman; title: "I see you": colonial narratives and the act of seeing in Avatar / John James and Tom Ue; title: Gonzalo Guerrero and the Maya resistance to the Spanish Conquistadors: a sixteenth century "Avatar" of Avatar / C. Scott Littleton; title: Conclusion: seeing the films of James Cameron mythically / Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Stephen McVeigh.