Kathryn Bigelow
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Description
Sean Redmond's volume situates Bigelow within her historical and critical context, exploring key collaborative relationships and new ways of watching her films.
This book fills an important gap in the scholarship on the European-inspired auteur working within the Hollywood cinema machine, Kathryn Bigelow. Structured to meet the needs of both the student and scholar, Beginning with Bigelow's biography, Redmond surveys the evolution of Kathryn's career as a Hollywood outsider with movies such as The Set-up (1978) and Near Dark (1987) to Hollywood blockbusters like Point Break (1991), The Hurt Locker (2010) and Zero Dark Thirty (2012). One of the key determinants of this volume is to locate Bigelow as a filmmaking artist who is able to transcend the collective, industrial, and commercial constraints of the Hollywood cinema machine to individually author her films in innovative and transgressive ways. Bigelow is contextualised as a contemporary auteur, with a distinct visual style who returns to the same themes and obsessions, and as a filmmaker who pushes cinematic boundaries, both in terms of film form and the representation of gender and sexuality.
Table of Contents
1. Key Collaborative Relationships: Working in the Shadow of Man
2. Essay One: Ways of watching X: Intensified Aesthetics
3. Essay Two: New critical exploration around a specific concept: Gender Transgression
4. A - Z Films / Themes / Key Concepts: Genre, Synesthetic soundscapes, Affect, and the space between movement and time, Looking relations (the virtual gaze), Queer Bigelow, Violence, Becoming Woman, Authorship, Stardom, Whiteness, Brand Bigelow
Filmography
Conclusion
Appendix
Product details
| Published | 14 May 2026 |
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| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Pages | 304 |
| ISBN | 9781623564100 |
| Imprint | Bloomsbury Academic |
| Illustrations | 12 bw illus |
| Dimensions | 216 x 138 mm |
| Series | The Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Filmmakers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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