Kathryn Bigelow

This is a wide-ranging and revealing collection of interviews with Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigalow. With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow 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 lates [...]
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This is a wide-ranging and revealing collection of interviews with Oscar winning director Kathryn Bigalow. With her gripping film The Hurt Locker, Kathryn Bigelow 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), 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, this 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.