A critical companion to James Cameron. (2018)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Adam Barkman, Antonio Sanna.
• Editors: Barkman, Adam, 1979-; Sanna, Antonio, 1978-
• Contents: <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter One: We Must Not Forget about the Flying Fish: <span style="font-style:italic;">Piranha II ’s Influence on Cameron’s Subsequent Works ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Ian Thomas Malone and Antonio Sanna ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Two: Reframing Tragedy: <span style="font-style:italic;">Titanic, Affect and the Arresting Image ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Fran Pheasant-Kelly ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Three: Exploration, Education and Humanity: James Cameron’s Deep-Sea Documentaries ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Alissa Burger ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Four: <span style="font-style:italic;">Avatar, SF Mannerism and the Anthropocene ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Maurizia Natali <span style="font-style:italic;"> ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Five: She’s the ‘King of the World!’ Modernizing Melodrama in <span style="font-style:italic;">Titanic ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Carol Donelan ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Six: Losing Touch or Making More Contact? Cameron’s Use of Technology and Visual Effects ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Paul Johnson ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Seven: <span style="font-style:italic;">The Exodus Decoded, The Lost Tomb of Jesus and the Problem of History for Faith ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Jonathan Fischer and Adam Barkman ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Eight: No Fate: James Cameron, Jesus, and John Connor ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Racheal Harris ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Nine: The Simulated Sublime: Exploring Hollywood Ecocriticism in <span style="font-style:italic;">Avatar ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Siobhan Lyons ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Ten: The Backlash and Empowerment of Feminism in <span style="font-style:italic;">Xenogenesis, <span style="font-style:italic;">Piranha II: The Spawning, and <span style="font-style:italic;">Aliens ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Eleven: Taking Gettier to Tasker: <span style="font-style:italic;">True Lies, Knowledge, and the Prospects of Virtue Epistemology ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Michael Versteeg and Adam Barkman ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Twelve: “I Wanted to Do Something Outrageous”: On the Limits of Parody in <span style="font-style:italic;">True Lies ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Russell P. Johnson and Naaman K. Wood ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Section III: The Futurist ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Thirteen: Genetically Modified Human Beings in <span style="font-style:italic;">Dark Angel ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Sabine Planka ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Fourteen: Of Shape-Shifters and Shifting Alliances: The Politics of the <span style="font-style:italic;">Terminator Franchise ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Patrick Zwosta ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Fifteen <span style="font-weight:bold;">: An Abyss of Aliens: Action, Allegory and Mythological Elements in <span style="font-style:italic;">Aliens and <span style="font-style:italic;">The Abyss ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Carl H. Sobocinski ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Sixteen: Refining Genre, Reassessing Gender: Assessing the Sacrificial Heroine in the Works of James Cameron ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Christian Jimenez ; ; <p style="line-height:2;">Chapter Seventeen: “Two Candles in the Dark”: James Cameron’s Modern Fairy Tales ; ; <p style="line-height:2;"><span style="font-style:italic;">Elsa Columbani
• Publisher Details: Lanham : Lexington Books
• Publication Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 791.43023092; Performing Arts: Film / Direction & Production; Social Science: Media Studies; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781498572316
• Related ISBNs: 9781498572309
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