We must not forget about the flying fish: Piranha II's influence on Cameron's subsequent works / Ian Thomas Malone and Antonio Sanna -- Reframing tragedy: Titanic, affect and the arresting image / Fran Pheasant-Kelly -- Exploration, education and humanity: James Cameron's deep-sea documentaries / Alissa Burger -- Avatar, SF mannerism and the anthropocene / Maurizia Natali -- She's the "king of the world!" modernizing melodrama in Titanic / Carol Donelan -- Losing touch or making more contact? Cameron's use of technology and visual effects / Paul Johnson -- The exodus decoded, The lost tomb of Jesus and the problem of history for faith / Jonathan Fischer and Adam Barkman -- No fate: James Cameron, Jesus, and John Connor / Racheal Harris -- The simulated sublime: exploring Hollywood ecocriticism in Avatar / Siobhan Lyons -- The backlash and empowerment of feminism in xenogenesis, Piranha II: the spawning, and Aliens / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Taking gettier to tasker: true lies, knowledge, and the prospects of virtue epistemology / Michael Versteeg and Adam Barkman -- "I wanted to do something outrageous": on the limits of parody in True lies / Russell P. Johnson and Naaman K. Wood -- Genetically modified human beings in Dark angel / Sabine Planka -- Of shape-shifters and shifting alliances: the politics of the Terminator franchise / Patrick Zwosta -- An abyss of aliens: action, allegory and mythological elements in Aliens and The abyss / Carl H. Sobocinski -- Refining genre, reassessing gender: assessing the sacrificial heroine in the works of James Cameron / Christian Jimenez -- "Two candles in the dark": James Cameron's modern fairy tales / Elsa Columbani.
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"-- Provided by publisher.
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