{"product_id":"9781628469301","title":"Kathryn Bigelow: Interviews","description":"\u003cp\u003eWith her gripping film \u003ci\u003eThe Hurt Locker\u003c\/i\u003e, 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, \u003ci\u003eZero Dark Thirty\u003c\/i\u003e, which is about the mission to kill Osama Bin Laden.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eShe 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 \u003ci\u003eThe Loveless\u003c\/i\u003e reflected those academic origins, but such subsequent films such as the vampire-Western \u003ci\u003eNear Dark\u003c\/i\u003e, the female vigilante movie \u003ci\u003eBlue Steel\u003c\/i\u003e, and the surfer-crime thriller \u003ci\u003ePoint Break\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrated her determination to apply her aesthetic sensibilities to popular, genre filmmaking.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe first volume of Bigelow's interviews ever published, Peter Keough's collection covers her early success with \u003ci\u003eNear Dark\u003c\/i\u003e; the frustrations and disappointments she endured with films such as \u003ci\u003eStrange Days\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eK-19: The Widowmaker\u003c\/i\u003e; and her triumph with \u003ci\u003eThe Hurt Locker\u003c\/i\u003e. 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 such renowned directors as John Ford, Howard Hawks, Don Siegel, Sam Peckinpah, and George Roy Hill.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47113886171376,"sku":"9781628469301","price":25.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781628469301_p0.jpg?v=1763871663","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781628469301","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}