Essays Tagged: "James Cameron"

Technology spontaneously approaching humanity with the passage of time

man, or at least beings that challenge how we define being 'human.' Ridley Scott's Blade Runner and James Cameron's Terminator 2 offer two particular scenarios of futures in which the state of technol ...

(8 pages) 171 0 4.7 May/1996

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies

Man Vs. Machine

ed worker and their similar forms of representation, may be numbered.Work CitedThe Terminator. Dir. James Cameron. Perf. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Biehn,Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield. Artisan, 19 ... negger, Michael Biehn,Linda Hamilton, Paul Winfield. Artisan, 1984.Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Dir. James Cameron. Perf. Arnold Schwarzenegger, LindaHamilton, Edward Furlong, Robert Patrick. Artisan, 1991.

(3 pages) 170 3 3.1 May/2002

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

The Literature about the Titanic

shed by Carl Sandburg in a book named The America Songbag entitled "De Titanic" and an essay on the James Cameron film, Titanic by Katha Pollitt entitled "Women and Children First." The literature wri ... y 15. This is totally wrong because the "Titanic" actually sunk on April 14.Lastly, an essay on the James Cameron film "Titanic" by Katha Pollitt entitled "Women and Children First" was about how unre ...

(2 pages) 61 0 3.7 Feb/2003

Subjects: History Term Papers > World History

New Hollywood Cinema

lywood science fiction films such as Star Wars (George Lucas 1977), and Terminator 2 Judgement Day (James Cameron 1991) are successful in using these film making devices in order to attract and appeal ... ttempt to rescue Princess Leia (Carrie Fisher) from the clutches of the evil Darth Vader (voiced by James Earl Jones).The overall storyline in both films are somewhat similar in the sense that they ...

(9 pages) 97 1 4.5 May/2004

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Genre Study

Terminator- An alert to human

TERMINATORTerminator is the movie directed by James Cameron in 1991. It was released on Oct 21, 1997 in DVD by Artisan Entertainment. The main act ... eople will never know what is going to happen to them once they put all their beliefs on computers. James Cameron represents the clear look of desire and fear that man has towards his technology. Peop ...

(2 pages) 37 1 3.3 Mar/2005

Subjects: Science Essays > Computer Science > Artificial Intelligence

James Cameron

James Cameron was born in Kapuskasing, Ontario in Canada on August 14 1954. His family later moved t ... , Ontario in Canada on August 14 1954. His family later moved to Chippewa Falls near Niagara Falls. James Cameron was during his youth years always very fascinated with movies. He was mesmerized when ... both studies because the math in the physics course had been too difficult for Cameron to deal with.James Cameron got a job as a miniature model maker at the Roger Corman Studios. This was a great opp ...

(9 pages) 27 0 4.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Directors

How the movie "Titanic" relates to suffering and death

In the movie "Titanic", a James Cameron film, the theme is the tragic story in 1912 when the Titanic sunk in the North Atlanti ... d how scary and realistic this time was.It is obvious throughout the whole movie that the director, James Cameron, was trying to make history come alive. He stressed on the account of an unbridled cou ...

(2 pages) 17 0 3.0 Feb/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

James Cameron - An Auteurist Critique

water, helicopters, claustrophobia, and a movie that has gone significantly over budget? You get a James Cameron film. James Cameron is the first director to film both a $100 million and a $200 milli ... 200 million movie, Terminator 2: Judgment Day and Titanic respectively (www.imbd.com). In addition, James Cameron's Titanic has gone on to become one of the top grossing films in history, receiving 14 ...

(7 pages) 23 0 0.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

"Titanic" Review

le, great love of the viewers all over the world.The movie was written, directed and co-produced by James Cameron. He managed to make a wonderful, exciting and very romantic movie. Its plot is based o ... eme of this film is the famous touching soundtrack "My Heart Will Go On", performed by Celine Dion. James Horner wrote this song in secret with Will Jennings because Cameron did not want any songs wit ...

(3 pages) 39 0 3.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Titanic - The Movie

This essay is an attempt to explore something I noticed when I saw James Cameron's Titanic on opening night. This concept did not occur to me immediately, but as I saw ... at I believe to be the explanation for these homages. Both Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) and James Cameron's Titanic (1997) are brilliant, powerful films that stand on their own merits as examp ... f how a person becomes a "psycho-killer".It is my suggestion in this essay that it is possible that James Cameron paid homage to Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (and of course, in some cases, the book b ...

(2 pages) 1602 0 0.0 Jul/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Physics Of The Titanic

from the weight and gravitational pull in the bow.Mr Andrews in the 1996 film "˜Titanic', by James Cameron puts it best: " Water 14 feet above the keel in 10 minutes, in the forpeek, in all thr ...

(4 pages) 23 0 5.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Humanities Essays

Titanic - A Review

. The real Titanic (1912) resting deep down on the ocean bed has stirred up the creative ability of James Cameron, the writer-director. It does bring to our mind the aesthetic & poetic response of ... thriller which has just one song, "My heart will go on"¦" [Lyric by Will Jennings, Music by James Horner] The breath-taking technical and visual effects conjure up the memories of path-breakin ...

(1 pages) 1512 0 0.0 Aug/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

How Is Representation Used Within The Successful 1

e sinking of the great ocean liner amongst the ice packs of the North Atlantic in 1912. Directed by James Cameron; famous for Aliens, True Lies and the Terminator movies, and starring actors such as L ... 1 (Universal Pictures, 2000) 2. Steven Spielberg: Saving Private Ryan (Paramount Pictures, 1998) 3. James Cameron: Aliens (20th Century Fox, 1986) 4. James Cameron: True Lies (20th Century Fox, 1994) ...

(14 pages) 2522 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Titanic Critical Review

the largest and most luxurious moving object ever built by the hand of man, the writer and director James Cameron tried to recapture the true life of this fabulous ship. The Titanic included various a ... a legend, even before anyone had been on the ship. Of course it would have been quite difficult for James Cameron to rebuild the actual Titanic so he had a replica built of this amazing beauty just sh ...

(3 pages) 17 0 0.0 Nov/2008

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film Review and Analysis

Analysis of Interpersonal Meaning of the film "Avatar"

rpretation:Fifteen years in the making and supposedly costing over 300 million dollars Avatar marks Cameron's first foray into fiction since 1997's incredibly successful [+] Titanic. The film is set i ... fying it, at the same time, he refers indirectly (invoked attitude +) to the director of such film (Cameron) as a successful director too.In the next line, he speaks about a destroyed earth by turning ...

(22 pages) 57 0 0.0 Jun/2010

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

avatar essay

Jose GonzalezFAS Block 1ANov. 26, 2013Ms. MucciaroneAvatar, by James Cameron, is a sci-fi film about how humans are on Pandora to get the unobtanium within the pla ...

(2 pages) 3 0 0.0 Jun/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies > Film History

Avatar

s worldwide. Use examples of visual and/or oral features to support your points.Avatar, directed by James Cameron, is the compelling and suspenseful story of a futuristic extraterrestrial world, where ... eed is relentless, at the expense of both the environment and the indigenous population, the Na'vi. James Cameron creates a strong, stubborn and extremely inspiring character in Jake Sully, the protag ...

(5 pages) 3 0 0.0 Oct/2014

Subjects: Art Essays > Film & TV Studies