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The Cinema of James Cameron. Bodies in Heroic Motion.
James Clarke
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Description for The Cinema of James Cameron. Bodies in Heroic Motion.
Series: Directors' Cuts. Num Pages: 224 pages, 50 B&W. BIC Classification: APFB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 155 x 243 x 16. Weight in Grams: 442.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Columbia University Press United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Series
Directors' Cuts
Number of Pages
224
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231169769
SKU
V9780231169769
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About James Clarke
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.
Reviews for The Cinema of James Cameron. Bodies in Heroic Motion.
Examines Cameron's place in the transitional paradigm of a post-analogue, posthuman, and painterly cinema where impossible bodies are rendered through reassuringly old-fashioned narrative and spectacular conventions that have made his films the biggest on the planet. This comprehensive study outlines how his enduring fascination with bleeding-edge technology has both caught the public imagination and time and again proved a touchstone ... Read more