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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. Space is also given to discussion of Strange Days as well as his documentary works.
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AcknowledgementsIntroduction1. Genesis: From Short Film Visions to Low-Budget Monster Movie2. The Terminator (1984)3. Aliens (1986)4. The Abyss (1989)5. Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991)6. True Lies (1994)7. Titanic (1997)8. Avatar (2009)9. Cameron's Documentaries10. Cameron as Writer and ProducerFilmographyBibliographyIndex
About the author
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.
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Explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron
