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Author : Ed W. Marsh
Publisher : Boxtree, Limited
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Titanic (Motion picture : 1997)
ISBN : 0752224042
Author : James Cameron
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1789099226
Author : Rebecca Keegan
Publisher : Crown
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2010-10-05
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780307460325
With the release of Avatar in December 2009, James Cameron cements his reputation as king of sci-fi and blockbuster filmmaking. It’s a distinction he’s long been building, through a directing career that includes such cinematic landmarks as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, and the highest grossing movie of all time, Titanic. The Futurist is the first in-depth look at every aspect of this audacious creative genius—culminating in an exclusive behind-the-scenes glimpse of the making of Avatar, the movie that promises to utterly transform the way motion pictures are created and perceived. As decisive a break with the past as the transition from silents to talkies, Avatar pushes 3-D, live action, and photo-realistic CGI to a new level. It rips through the emotional barrier of the screen to transport the audience to a fabulous new virtual world. With cooperation from the often reclusive Cameron, author Rebecca Keegan has crafted a singularly revealing portrait of the director’s life and work. We meet the young truck driver who sees Star Wars and sets out to learn how to make even better movies himself—starting by taking apart the first 35mm camera he rented to see how it works. We observe the neophyte director deciding over lunch with Arnold Schwarzenegger that the ex-body builder turned actor is wrong in every way for the Terminator role as written, but perfect regardless. After the success of The Terminator, Cameron refines his special-effects wizardry with a big-time Hollywood budget in the creation of the relentlessly exciting Aliens. He builds an immense underwater set for The Abyss in the massive containment vessel of an abandoned nuclear power plant—where he pushes his scuba-breathing cast to and sometimes past their physical and emotional breaking points (including a white rat that Cameron saved from drowning by performing CPR). And on the set of Titanic, the director struggles to stay in charge when someone maliciously spikes craft services’ mussel chowder with a massive dose of PCP, rendering most of the cast and crew temporarily psychotic. Now, after his movies have earned over $5 billion at the box office, James Cameron is astounding the world with the most expensive, innovative, and ambitious movie of his career. For decades the moviemaker has been ready to tell the Avatar story but was forced to hold off his ambitions until technology caught up with his vision. Going beyond the technical ingenuity and narrative power that Cameron has long demonstrated, Avatar shatters old cinematic paradigms and ushers in a new era of storytelling. The Futurist is the story of the man who finally brought movies into the twenty-first century.
Author : James Clarke
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2014-05-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780231169776
This timely volume explores the massively popular cinema of writer-director James Cameron. It couches Cameron's films within the evolving generic traditions of science fiction, melodrama, and the cinema of spectacle. The book also considers Cameron's engagement with the aesthetic of visual effects and the 'now' technology of performance-capture which is arguably moving a certain kind of event-movie cinema from photography to something more akin to painting. This book is explicit in presenting Cameron as an authentic auteur, and each chapter is dedicated to a single film in his body of work. Space is also given to discussion of Strange Days as well as his documentary works.
Author : Alexandra Keller
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2014-05-01
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134700219
Featuring excerpts from interviews and frame-by-frame analysis of important scenes from films such as Terminator, Aliens, True Lies, and Titanic, 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. Sections in the book include: Chronology Key Debates Key Scenes Sources Resources. This is a fascinating insight into the work of one of Hollywood's top directors, and will prove invalubale to students of film studies and media studies all over the English-speaking world.
Author : Randall Frakes,Brooks Peck,Sidney Perkowitz,Matt Singer,Gary K. Wolfe,Lisa Yaszek
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-15
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781683835905
This companion to the AMC’s mini-series features the full interviews plus essays by sci-fi insiders and rare concept art from Cameron’s archives. For the show, James Cameron personally interviewed six of the biggest names in science fiction filmmaking—Guillermo del Toro, George Lucas, Christopher Nolan, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Ridley Scott, and Steven Spielberg—to get their perspectives on the importance of the genre. This book reproduces the interviews in full as the greatest minds in the genre discuss key topics including alien life, time travel, outer space, dark futures, monsters, and intelligent machines. An in-depth interview with Cameron is also featured, plus essays by experts in the science fiction field on the main themes covered in the show. Illustrated with rare and previously unseen concept art from Cameron’s personal archives, plus imagery from iconic sci-fi movies, TV shows, and books, James Cameron’s Story of Science Fiction offers a sweeping examination of a genre that continues to ask questions, push limits, and thrill audiences around the world.
Author : James Cameron
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781617031311
Interviews with the acclaimed director of such films as The Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Titanic, and Avatar
Author : Matthew Wilhelm Kapell,Stephen McVeigh
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-29
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780786487547
Among the most expensive—and most profitable—films of all time, the works of James Cameron have had a profound effect upon popular culture and the technology of moviemaking. Yet the very blockbuster nature of his films means that the political commentary, cultural discourse and rich symbolism within the works are often overlooked. From The Terminator to Avatar, the director has evinced a persistence of themes, concerns and visions that capture the contemporary zeitgeist. This collection of essays on James Cameron’s films, written by a diverse group of scholars from a wide range of disciplines, provides a comprehensive exploration of the work and legacy of one of America’s foremost filmmakers.
Author : Randall Frakes
Publisher : It Books
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0060953071
Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay contains the shooting script of the most popular film of all time. An invaluable reference for film students and fans, this book details the evolution of the epic romance from script to screen, including scenes and dialogue cut from the final film, as well as annotations explaining footage seen in the final cut, yet not contained in the screenplay. Never-before-seen photographs of the stars, storyboards for sequences never filmed, and an in-depth interview with Cameron make Titanic: James Cameron's Illustrated Screenplay an essential companion to the #1 bestseller James Cameron's Titanic.
Author : Paula Parisi
Publisher : Newmarket Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-10
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1557043655
The only reporter James Cameron invited to chronicle the astonishing three-year odyssey that was the making of Titanic, Paula Parisi details the behind-the-scenes adventure so vividly you feel as if you are there. In this fast-paced narrative, we dive with Cameron twelve thousand feet to the wreckage of the Titanic. We're with him as he plans and budgets the film, scouts locations, and casts the actors; as he builds a state-of-the-art studio in Mexico, deals with studio executives, edits fourteen days' worth of film, and supervises more than five hundred special effects. Cameron also collaborates with composer James Horner and singer Celine Dion, and ultimately wins the gold: eleven Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture. Excerpts from Cameron's journals are cited throughout. In addition, there's Cameron's own story: his childhood and family life; his first experience in film, working for Roger Corman; and fascinating stories about the founding of Lightstorm and the making of Terminator, Aliens, The Abyss, Terminator 2, True Lies, and, ultimately, Titanic.
Author : Marc Shaprio
Publisher : Renaissance Books
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2000-03-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 158063124X
As told by veteran entertainment journalist Marc Shapiro, the story of James Cameron is rich in history and as explosively entertaining as any of his masterpiece films. Cameron the youngster built toy rockets and submarines and displayed at an early age the drive to win at any cost. The Cameron legend has it that when a neighbor stole some of little Jim's toys, he sneaked into the boy's backyard and sawed through the branches supporting his treehouse. When the treehouse collapsed, Cameron's rival ended up in the hospital. Ever since that day, James Cameron has been leaving many of those who cross his path in a state of mental or physical disrepair. But his fanaticism and incredibly strong work ethic also win the respect of those around him, and inspire many to go the extra mile. The teenager who was awestruck by the visual power and special effects of Stanley Kubrick's groundbreaking 2001: A Space Odyssey and immediately decided to become a filmmaker, has grown up to be one of the very best. But at what cost? Those who would label Cameron a self-absorbed , egotistical maniac have plenty of ammunition to back up their claims. As early as 1984's The Terminator, cast and crew members took to wearing T-shirts with the slogan "You can't scare me...I work for James Cameron." Of course, the infamous director never really talks to co-workers on his sets, he barks at them in succinct soundbites. And he doesn't play favorites. Not even his franchise player, Arnold Schwarzenegger, got special treatment during the filming of True Lies. High on a crane and ready to film a scene, he reports: "I had to go to the bathroom read bad. Jim screams up to me, 'No you can't! You're a military man on a mission, would a real pilot land just to go to the bathroom?'" James Cameron: An Unauthorized Biography of the Filmmaker includes other revelations and insights: * how the idea for The Terminator came to him in a fever dream * how he fell overboard in love with actress Suzy Amis on the set of Titanic * how Cameron's antics drove several stars of The Abyss to near nervous breakdowns * how someone on the set of Titanic allegedly attempted to incapacitate the lovable director by slipping him, and the rest of the crew, the drug PCP
Author : Wil Mara
Publisher : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781627129534
Director of some of the largest grossing movies of all time, including Titanic, Avatar, Terminator, and more.
Author : Bonnie McMeans
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography
ISBN : 9781438140827
Describes the life of James Cameron, director of the successful movie, Titanic.
Author : James Cameron
Publisher : Lifewrites Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2015-11-20
Category : African Americans
ISBN : 0996576908
"I had done nothing really bad, but this was Marion, Indiana, where there was very little room for foolish black boys." Unique, uplifting memoir about surviving a lynching and coming of age during Jim Crow. Annotated, with fifty photos, a foreword, introduction, and afterword.
Author : Adam Barkman,Antonio Sanna
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-26
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781498572316
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.