Tag Archives: James Cameron

Avatar II’s Debt to Moby Dick

By Robin Bates | Published: January 23, 2023

Cameron’s “Avatar 2” owes a large debt to “Moby Dick.”

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The Titanic and Adolescence, 2 Disasters

By Robin Bates | Published: September 17, 2010

Film Friday I have been recently writing about how Jane Austen’s 17-year-old heroine in Northanger Abbey uses gothic novels to negotiate the challenges of early 19th century life. Today I talk about how the greatest box office success in Hollywood history did the same for middle school girls in 1997. In fact, a major reason […]

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Environmental Revenge Fantasy

By Robin Bates | Published: March 5, 2010

Film Friday Henceforth I will devote my Friday posts to something I like almost as much as literature–which is to say, movies.  Film is, after all, a narrative art form, and I teach film history and theory as well as literature at St. Mary’s College of Maryland. Although I may, at times, look at intersections between […]

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