Research Catalog

Title

Kathryn Bigelow : interviews / edited by Peter Keough.

Author

Bigelow, Kathryn.

Publication

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2013]

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Details

Additional Authors

Keough, Peter, 1952-

Description

xxx, 247 pages; 24 cm.

Summary

"With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow (b. 1951) made history in 2010 by becoming the first woman to win an Oscar for Best Director. Since then she has also filmed history with her latest movie, Zero Dark Thirty, which is about the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden. She is one of Hollywood's brightest stars, but her roots go back four decades to the very non-Hollywood, avant-garde art world of New York City in the 1970s. Her first feature The Loveless (1982) reflected those academic origins, but subsequent films such as the vampire-Western Near Dark (1987), the female vigilante movie Blue Steel (1989), and the surfer-crime thriller Point Break (1991) demonstrated her determination to apply her aesthetic sensibilities to popular, genre filmmaking. The first volume of Bigelow's interviews ever published, Peter Keough's collection covers her early success with Near Dark; the frustrations and disappointments she endured with films such as Strange Days (1995) and K-19: The Widowmaker (2002); and her triumph with The Hurt Locker. In conversations ranging from the casual to the analytical, Bigelow explains how her evolving ambitions and aesthetics sprang from her earliest aspirations to be a painter and conceptual artist in New York in the 1970s, and then expanded to embrace Hollywood filmmaking when she was exposed to renowned directors such as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, and George Roy Hill."--Publisher description.

Series Statement

Conversations with filmmakers series

Uniform Title

• Conversations with filmmakers series.
• Project Muse UPCC books

Subject

• Bigelow, Kathryn > Interviews
• Bigelow, Kathryn 1951-
• Film
• Women motion picture producers and directors > United States > Interviews

Genre/Form

Interviews

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Nicholas Ray: the last interview / Kathryn Bigelow and Sarah Fatima Parsons (1979) -- A visit with the master of melodrama: Douglas Sirk / Kathryn Bigelow, Matthias Brunner, and Monty Montgomery (1982) -- Revamping vampires / Marcia Froelke Coburn (1987) -- Black-leather director in a business world / Clarke Taylor (1988) -- Happiness is a warm gun / Phoebe Hoban (1988-1990) -- Dark by design / Victoria Hamburg (1989) -- Blue steel: Kathryn Bigelow in action / Nancy Mills (1989) -- Genre bender / Kenneth Turan (1989) -- Kathryn Bigelow's disturbing vision / Gerald Peary (1990) -- James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow / Tom Johnson (1990) -- From style to steel / Nick James (1990) -- Hollywood's macho woman / Mark Salisbury (1991) -- Kathryn Bigelow / Ana Maria Bahiana (1992) -- Momentum and design: Kathryn Bigelow interviewed / Gavin Smith (1995) -- Kathryn Bigelow: vicarious thrills / Sheila Johnston (1995) -- Reality bytes / Andrew Hultkrans (1995) --^ Strange days probes import of vicarious living / David Sterritt (1995) -- Happy new millennium / Roald Rynning (1996) -- Action figure / Johanna Schneller (1999-2002) -- Direct from the gut / Peter Howell (2000) -- K-19: the widowmaker: a film by Kathryn Bigelow / Ted Elick (2002) -- Her underwater canvas / Richard Natale (2002) -- K-19: the widowmaker: Harrison Ford and Kathryn Bigelow interview / Scott huver (2002) -- "I like to be strong" / Stuart Jeffries (2002) -- Time's up / Nick Dawson (2009) -- An interview with Hurt locker's Kathryn Bigelow / Robert Horton (2009) -- Interview: Kathryn Bigelow / Scott Tobias (2009) -- Kathryn Bigelow to movieline: "I thrive on production. I don't know if I thrive in normal Life" / Kyle Buchanan (2009) -- Interview with Kathryn Bigelow / Ryan Stewart (2009)O -- Big bang theory: Kathryn Bigelow breaks out with The hurt locker / Peter Keough (2009) -- An interview with Kathryn Bigelow / Peter Keough (2009) --^ A discussion with Kathryn Bigelow at the Harvard Film Archive / David Pendleton (2009) -- A maverick female director explores men who dare death / Carrie Rickey (2009) -- The hurt locker interview: Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal / Kingsley Marshall (2009) -- Shoot shoot, bang bang / Paul Bond (2009) -- Kathryn Bigelow's 2010 Cscar acceptance speech / Kathryn Bigelow (2010) -- Introduction and Q&A for Museum of Modern Art retrospective / Brett Michel (2011) -- Press conference for Zero dark thirty / Peter Keough and Brett Michel (2012).

ISBN

• 9781617037740 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 1617037745 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 9781617037757 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013009244

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library