A Critical Companion to James Cameron, edited by Adam Barkman and Antonio Sanna

Autor: Martin Jones
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2021
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Zdroj: Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, Iss 21, Pp 244-249 (2021)
Druh dokumentu: article
ISSN: 2009-4078
DOI: 10.33178/alpha.21.22
Popis: Over a span of forty years, James Cameron has become synonymous with the box-office blockbuster. Bigger stars, budgets, and technological innovations have led the director to transcend spectacle-centric contemporaries like Roland Emmerich and Michael Bay, reframing him in the words of Thomas Elsaesser, as “the embodiment of the post-auteur author” (248). For Elsaesser, the post-auteur author is distinguished in part by their ability to synergise art and business into a single entity. As is the case with Cameron, this often culminates in the formation of a production studio or visual effects company, but Cameron’s desire to create universally appealing films while exercising total control over their production seems to transcend even this tradition.
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