James Cameron

From "Aliens" to "Titanic", James Cameron's films have spanned genres, broken box-office records, cleaned up at the Oscars, and turned body-builders into movie stars. This book provides a critical study of James Cameron as an auteur, and offers an overview of his work and its significance within cinematic history.From "Aliens" to "Titanic", James Cameron's films have spanned genres, broken box-office records, cleaned up at the Oscars, and turned body-builders into movie stars. Despite Cameron's undeniable influence on the high-concept postmodern blockbuster that dominated the 1980s and 1990s, there has until recently been little academic attention to his work. Alexandra Keller provides the first critical study of James Cameron as an auteur. Considering in particular his treatment of gender and preoccupation with capital, both in his films and his filmmaking practice, Keller offers an overview of Cameron's work and its significance within cinematic history. Featuring excerpts from interviews and frame-by-frame analysis of important scenes from films such as "Terminator", "Aliens", "True Lies", and "Titanic", sections in the book include: chronology; key debates; key scenes; sources; and resources. This is a fascinating insight into the work of one of Hollywood's top directors, and will prove invaluable to students of film studies and media studies all over the English-speaking world.