The Cinema of James Cameron: Bodies in Heroic Motion
James Clarke
Abstract
This book 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. The 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 Ter ... More
Keywords: James Cameron, science fiction, melodrama, spectacle, visual effects, short films, script writer, film director
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2014 | Print ISBN-13: 9780231169776 |
| Published to Columbia Scholarship Online: November 2015 | DOI:10.7312/columbia/9780231169776.001.0001 |
