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James Cameron
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James Francis Cameron is an Academy Award-winning Canadian-American director, producer and screenwriter. He is noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often highly innovative and financially successful. Thematically, James Cameron's films generally explore the relationship between humanity and technology. Cameron created the Terminator franchise, serving as co-writer and director for The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Later, he wrote and directed the film Titanic, which earned 11 Academy Awards and grossed over US$1.8 billion worldwide. To date, his directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$3 billion, unadjusted for inflation. After a string of landmark feature films including The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, The Abyss, and Titanic, Cameron turned his focus to documentary filmmaking and the co-development of the digital 3-D Fusion Camera System. He is currently working on a return to feature filmmaking with the science fiction film Avatar, which will make use of the Fusion Camera System technology. Avatar is scheduled for release in December of 2009.
James Francis Cameron is an Academy Award-winning Canadian-American director, producer and screenwriter. He is noted for his action/science fiction films, which are often highly innovative and financially successful. Thematically, James Cameron's films generally explore the relationship between humanity and technology. Cameron created the Terminator franchise, serving as co-writer and director for The Terminator and Terminator 2: Judgment Day. Later, he wrote and directed the film Titanic, which earned 11 Academy Awards and grossed over US$1.8 billion worldwide. To date, his directorial efforts have grossed approximately US$3 billion, unadjusted for inflation. After a string of landmark feature films including The Terminator, Aliens, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, True Lies, The Abyss, and Titanic, Cameron turned his focus to documentary filmmaking and the co-development of the digital 3-D Fusion Camera System. He is currently working on a return to feature filmmaking with the science fiction film Avatar, which will make use of the Fusion Camera System technology. Avatar is scheduled for release in December of 2009.
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May 23, 2016
James Cameron, one of the outstanding journalists of his generation, reflects on the incidents which have shaped his life and career. Three early chapters chronicle his boyhood and the death of his parents and then his young wife. Recalled in later life, they remain deeply painful memories.
His career in journalism, working successively for the Beaverbrook press, the Picture Post, the News Chronicle and the Guardian plus unnamed broadcasters, takes him to virtually ever country in the world and sets him down as an observer of events that shaped all our lives. He becomes a friend of Nehru inIndia, he is the only British reporter watching the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, as a supporter of the United Nations he is devastatingly critical of its actions in the Korean war, he spends time in Equatorial Africa with Albert Schweizer and learns to dislike him, he makes a failed journey into Tibet in search of the Dalai Lama, he spends a hilariously useless time in Albania, and, inevitably, cannot escape Viet Nam.
Although Cameron insists that journalism is a trade rather than a profession, his book demonstrates that a committed eye and a highly developed gift for telling prose can leave a memorable impression long after the event.
In passing, it must be said that the aidio version catches the world-weary tone where required with precision, just as it does the wry humour.
His career in journalism, working successively for the Beaverbrook press, the Picture Post, the News Chronicle and the Guardian plus unnamed broadcasters, takes him to virtually ever country in the world and sets him down as an observer of events that shaped all our lives. He becomes a friend of Nehru inIndia, he is the only British reporter watching the atomic bomb test at Bikini Atoll, as a supporter of the United Nations he is devastatingly critical of its actions in the Korean war, he spends time in Equatorial Africa with Albert Schweizer and learns to dislike him, he makes a failed journey into Tibet in search of the Dalai Lama, he spends a hilariously useless time in Albania, and, inevitably, cannot escape Viet Nam.
Although Cameron insists that journalism is a trade rather than a profession, his book demonstrates that a committed eye and a highly developed gift for telling prose can leave a memorable impression long after the event.
In passing, it must be said that the aidio version catches the world-weary tone where required with precision, just as it does the wry humour.
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