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This book is a comprehensive, current scholarly analysis of the works of one of the world's most renowned and successful filmmakers. Written by some of the top scholars working in film and media studies, philosophy, and literature, the seventeen chapters in this book illuminate the entire artistic career of James Cameron.
List of contents
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
About the author
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.
Summary
This book is a comprehensive, current scholarly analysis of the works of one of the world’s most renowned and successful filmmakers. Written by some of the top scholars working in film and media studies, philosophy, and literature, the seventeen chapters in this book illuminate the entire artistic career of James Cameron.
