Introduction: persistence of visions-approaching the films of James Cameron / Stephen McVeigh and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Surveying James Cameron's reluctant political commentaries: 1984-2009 / Stephen McVeigh and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Fighting the history wars on the big screen: from The terminator to Avatar / Ace G. Pilkington
"She's a goddam liar": perspectives on the truth in Aliens and Titanic / Andrew B. R. Elliott
Art, image and spectacle in high concept cinema / Bruce Isaacs
"You have to look with better eyes than that": a filmmaker's ambivalence to technology / Elizabeth Rosen
"So what's your story?" morphing myths and feminizing archetypes from The terminator to Avatar / Dean Conrad
Between Aliens and Avatar: mapping the shifting terrain of the struggle for women's rights / Elisa Narminio and Matthew Wilhelm Kapell
Terminators, Aliens, and Avatars: the emergence of archetypal homosexual themes in a filmmaker's imagination / Roger Kaufman
"I see you": colonial narratives and the act of seeing in Avatar / John James and Tom Ue
Gonzalo Guerrero and the Maya resistance to the Spanish Conquistadors: a sixteenth century "Avatar" of Avatar / C. Scott Littleton
Conclusion: seeing the films of James Cameron mythically / Matthew Wilhelm Kapell and Stephen McVeigh.
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The films of James Cameron : critical essays. ISBN 9780786462797. Published by McFarland in 2011. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.
