| Kathryn Bigelow Contributor(s): Redmond, Sean (Author), Wilson, Scott (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1623564107 ISBN-13: 9781623564100 Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic OUR PRICE: $142.50 Product Type: Hardcover Published: April 2026 This item may be ordered no more than 25 days prior to its publication date of April 2, 2026 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Performing Arts | Film - Direction & Production |
| Series: Bloomsbury Companions to Contemporary Filmmakers |
| Physical Information: 304 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sean Redmond's work 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, Redmond's volume situates Bigelow within her historical and critical context, exploring key collaborative relationships and new ways of watching her films. 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Redmond, Sean: - Sean Redmond is Associate Professor in Media and Communication at Deakin University in Melbourne, Australia. He is editor of the journal Celebrity Studies, author of The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (2013), and Celebrity and the Media (2013).Wilson, Scott: - Scott Wilson is a Senior Lecturer in film history, film theory, and cultural studies in the Department of Performing and Screen Arts at Unitec, Institute of Technology in Auckland, New Zealand. |