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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.
About the Author
James Clarke (b. London 1934) has been a daily newspaperman in Britain, New Zealand and South Africa for most of his adult life. He is the author of 30 non-fiction books published in New York, London and South Africa.In 1968 he wrote his first natural science book - "Man is he Prey" (London and New York) which examined the motives and methods of man-eaters and man-killers and was a best seller in the United States.He had an abrupt switch in careers during the 1992 South African political crisis when he was asked to provide a daily dose of humour to cheer people up. Since then he has written nine books of humour .His humour column - "Stoep Talk" in the Johannesburg Star - is now 20 years old.His latest book is "Blazing Saddles"| - an account of how, annually, he has led a band of six journalists "to explore Darkest Europe and bring back to Africa tales of the funny natives there". An electronic version was published last year by Amazon under the title "Blazing Bicycle Saddles".This will be followed in 2013 by two other books: "The Yellow Six" and "S*x for the Extremely Shy".Another of his books - this one a serious natural science work investigating the rural African's view of wildlife - has just been published: "Save me from the Lion's Mouth.Clarke lives north of Johannesburg,
