A Critical Companion to James Cameron (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Barkman, Adam; Sanna, Antonio

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book offers a comprehensive, academic and detailed study of the works of James Cameron, whose films include successful productions such as the first two Terminator films (1984-91), Aliens (1986), Titanic (1997), and Avatar (2009), but also lesser known films such as Piranha 2: The Spawning (1981), The Abyss (1989), and True Lies (1994), and a series of documentaries on the depths of the ocean or on the tomb of Christ. Cameron's major productions have an immense and enduring popularity throughout the globe and have attracted both public and critical attention. This volume investigates several distinct areas of Cameron's works and addresses the different approaches and topics invited by the multidimensionality of the subject itself: the philosophical, the artistic, the socio-cultural and the personal. The methodologies adopted by the contributors differ significantly from each other, thus offering the reader a variegated and compelling picture of Cameron's oeuvre. Contrary to the numerous volumes published in the past on the subject, each chapter offers specific case studies that have been previously ignored, or only partially mentioned, by other scholars.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Oktober 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798216306078
• Artikelnr.: 74844519

Autorenporträt

Adam Barkman is professor of philosophy and chair of the Philosophy Department at Redeemer University College. Antonio Sanna teaches English language and literature at the Instituto Pitagora.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter One: We Must Not Forget about the Flying Fish: Piranha II's
Influence on Cameron's Subsequent Works Ian Thomas Malone and Antonio Sanna
Chapter Two: Reframing Tragedy: Titanic, Affect and the Arresting Image
Fran Pheasant-Kelly Chapter Three: Exploration, Education and Humanity:
James Cameron's Deep-Sea Documentaries Alissa Burger Chapter Four: Avatar,
SF Mannerism and the Anthropocene Maurizia Natali Chapter Five: She's the
'King of the World!' Modernizing Melodrama in Titanic Carol Donelan Chapter
Six: Losing Touch or Making More Contact? Cameron's Use of Technology and
Visual Effects Paul Johnson Chapter Seven: The Exodus Decoded, The Lost
Tomb of Jesus and the Problem of History for Faith Jonathan Fischer and
Adam Barkman Chapter Eight: No Fate: James Cameron, Jesus, and John Connor
Racheal Harris Chapter Nine: The Simulated Sublime: Exploring Hollywood
Ecocriticism in Avatar Siobhan Lyons Chapter Ten: The Backlash and
Empowerment of Feminism in Xenogenesis, Piranha II: The Spawning, and
Aliens Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns Chapter Eleven: Taking Gettier to
Tasker: True Lies, Knowledge, and the Prospects of Virtue Epistemology
Michael Versteeg and Adam Barkman Chapter Twelve: "I Wanted to Do Something
Outrageous": On the Limits of Parody in True Lies Russell P. Johnson and
Naaman K. Wood Section III: The Futurist Chapter Thirteen: Genetically
Modified Human Beings in Dark Angel Sabine Planka Chapter Fourteen: Of
Shape-Shifters and Shifting Alliances: The Politics of the Terminator
Franchise Patrick Zwosta Chapter Fifteen: An Abyss of Aliens: Action,
Allegory and Mythological Elements in Aliens and The Abyss Carl H.
Sobocinski Chapter Sixteen: Refining Genre, Reassessing Gender: Assessing
the Sacrificial Heroine in the Works of James Cameron Christian Jimenez
Chapter Seventeen: "Two Candles in the Dark": James Cameron's Modern Fairy
Tales Elsa Columbani