Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Notes on contributors Introduction: Hollywood Transgressor: The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow by Deborah Jermyn & Sean Redmond 1 bigelow's moving canvas 1 'Momentum and Design': Interview with Kathryn Bigelow by Gavin Smith 2 Breaking Sound Barriers: Bigelow's Soundscapes from The Loveless to Blue Steel by Robynn J. Stilwell 3 Vampires, Indians and the Queer Fantastic: Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark by Sara Gwenllian Jones 4 'Suck ... don't suck': Framing Ideology in Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark by Steven Jay Schneider 5 Redressing the Law in Kathryn Bigelow's Blue Steel by Robert T. Self 6 All That is Male Melts into Air: Bigelow on the Edge of Point Break by Sean Redmond 7 Cherchez la femme: The Weight of Water and the Search for Bigelow in 'a Bigelow film' by Deborah Jermyn 2 the strange gaze of kathryn bigelow 8 Strange Days: A Case History of Production and Distribution Practices in Hollywood by Romi Stepovich 9 Straight From the Cerebral Cortex: Vision and Affect in Strange Days by Steven Shaviro 10 The Strange Days of Kathryn Bigelow and James Cameron by Christina Lane 11 Rescuing Strange Days: Fan Reaction to a Critical and Commercial Failure by Will Brooker Filmography Bibliography Index

About the Author

Sean Redmond is Lecturer in Film Studies at the Southampton Institute, UK, and a contributor to Contemporary North American Film Directors (Wallflower Press, 2002) and the editor of Liquid Metal: The Science Fiction Film Reader (Wallflower Press, 2004) Deborah Jermyn is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Surrey, Roehampton, UK, and a contributor to Contemporary North American Film Directors (Wallflower Press, 2002) and Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies (Wallflower Press, 2005).

Reviews

A testament to both the breadth of the director's work and to the editor's achievement in filling such a gaping void in film studies.
*Film Quarterly*

It isn't normal magazine fluff or promotional hype...Kathryn Bigelow's career is given deep reflection and the thoughts in this book illuminate her work from an intellectual perspective.
*Manta Ray Pictures*