The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow by Deborah Jermun

The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow by Deborah Jermun

Kathryn Bigelow has undoubtedly been one of Hollywood's most significant female players, well known in popular terms for films such as Point Break and Blue Steel, yet relatively unexplored in academia. Soundbites about women and guns and speculation about the role of ex-husband James Cameron (Aliens, Titanic) in her career have often helped obscure rather than elucidate an understanding of her work. This collection explores how Bigelow can be seen to provide a point of intersection to a whole range of issues at the forefront of contemporary film studies and of the transformation of Hollywood into a post-classical cinema machine, with a particular emphasis on her most ambitious and controversial picture, Strange Days. Her place within new Hollywood is as a filmmaker that blurs genre conventions, reinscribes gender identites, and produces a breathless cinema of attractions.

Sean Redmond is a media and communication associate professor at Deakin University in Australia. He is the co-editor of Hollywood Transgressor: Kathryn Bigelow's Cinema (2004), Framing Celebrity: New Horizons in Celebrity Culture (2006), The Stardom and Celebrity Reader (2008), and The Star and Celebrity Confessional (2011), as well as the editor of Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader (2005). He also serves as the editor of the publication Celebrity Studies.

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ISBN 13	9781903364420
ISBN 10	1903364426
Title	The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow
Author	Deborah Jermun
Series	Directors' Cuts Ser
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Wallflower Press
Year published	2003-01-15
Number of pages	192
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