The Cinema of Kathryn Bigelow: Hollywood Transgressor

Edited by Deborah Jermyn and Sean Redmond

"[In] this first in-depth study of Bigelow's directorial career, Jermyn and Redmond establish a biographical context and the various critical perspectives informing the essays: feminism, queer theory, cultural studies, authorship, and psychology . . . All essays corroborate the near impossibility of compartmentalizing Bigelow's work, which simultaneously challenges and uses cinematic conventions, and Bigelow herself. Essential." — Choice

"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." — Jim Hemphill, 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

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• Film

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• Directors' Cuts

About the Author

Deborah Jermyn and Sean Redmond are lecturers in film studies at the Southampton Institute, UK, and have published widely on contemporary American cinema.

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