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OverviewKathryn 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Deborah Jermun , Sean RedmondPublisher: Wallflower Press Imprint: Wallflower Press Dimensions: Width: 16.30cm , Height: 2.10cm , Length: 23.60cm Weight: 0.566kg ISBN: 9781903364437ISBN 10: 1903364434 Pages: 192 Publication Date: 15 January 2003 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsReviews<p>A testament to both the breadth of the director's work and to the editor's achievement in filling such a gaping void in film studies.--Jim Hemphill Film Quarterly [In] this first in-depth study of Bigelow's directorial career, Jermyn and Redmond establish a biographical context and the various critical perspectives informing the essays: feminism, queer theory, cultural studies, authorship, and psychology... All essays corroborate the near impossibility of compartmentalizing Bigelow's work, which simultaneously challenges and uses cinematic conventions, and Bigelow herself. Essential. -- Choice A testament to both the breadth of the director's work and to the editor's achievement in filling such a gaping void in film studies.--Jim Hemphill Film Quarterly Author InformationDeborah Jermyn and Sean Redmond are lecturers in film studies at the Southampton Institute, UK, and have published widely on contemporary American cinema. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |