Avatar A Bibliography Scholarly publications on Avatar are listed in the second and third section of this bibliography, whereas the first section contains primary sources (e.g. script materials, tie-in books, interviews, reviews, newspaper articles, fan websites etc.). When carrying out your own research, you will easily find more sources when using search terms such as the following: “Avatar (2009)”, “James Cameron’s Avatar”, “Avatar fans”, “Avatar protest”, “Avatar activism”, “James Cameron interview”, “James Cameron politics”, “James Cameron activist”, “James Cameron climate change”. You may also be able to get access (through the university library) to databases such as Nexis, Factiva, FIAF or ProQuest, which, among other things, contain thousands of newspapers and magazines. With appropriate search terms (see above) this will enable you to find many hundreds of articles about the film and everything associated with it. 1 Selected Primary Sources Archive of Our Own (fan fiction website), “Avatar”, http://archiveofourown.org/tags/Avatar%20(2009)/works AvatarMeet.com (website organising fan meetings), http://avatarmeet.com Avatarprime.net (fan website, no longer active), http://archive.is/qsbYF “Avatar Director James Cameron Follows Box Office Success with Advocacy for Indigenous Struggles” (interview), Democracy Now, 27 April 2010, http://www.democracynow.org/2010/4/27/avatar_director_james_cameron_follows_box Avatar Forums (fan website), http://www.avatar-forums.com Avatar Wiki (fan website), http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki ; also see http://james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_2 and http://de.james-camerons-avatar.wikia.com/wiki/Avatar_Wiki Baxter, Stephen. The Science of Avatar, London: Victor Gollancz, 2012 Cameron, James. Avatar (extensive treatment or “scriptment”), 1995, http://sfy.ru/?script=avatar Cameron, James. Avatar (screenplay), 2007, http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/jamescameronsavatar/images/f/f5/JamesCameronAVATAR.pdf/revision /latest?cb=20100826145259 Cameron, James. “Before Avatar ... a curious boy” (TED talk), February 2010, https://www.ted.com/talks/james_cameron_before_avatar_a_curious_boy Cameron, James. “Declaration of James Cameron” (legal document), 31 October 2012, reproduced in full in Eriq Gardner, “Read James Cameron’s Sworn Declaration on How He Created Avatar (Exclusive)”, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 December 2012, http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/heat-vision/read-james-camerons-sworn-declaration-avatar-399979 Cameron, James. “Halting Climate Changes is as Simple as Changing Our Diets”, Newsweek, 8 December 2015, http://europe.newsweek.com/james-cameron-halting-climate-change-simple-change-diets-402447?rm=eu Deadline.com, various articles on James Cameron, http://deadline.com/tag/james-cameron/ Duncan, Jody, and Lisa Fitzpatrick. The Making of Avatar, New York: Abrams, 2010 Dunham, Brent (ed.). James Cameron: Interviews, Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2012 Fitzpatrick, Lisa. The Art of Avatar: James Cameron’s Epic Adventure, New York: Abrams, 2009 Gaudiosi, John. “Director James Cameron’s ‘Dangerous’ Message” (interview), Fortune, 10 August 2014, http://fortune.com/2014/08/10/james-cameron/ The Guardian.com, various articles on James Cameron, https://www.theguardian.com/film/jamescameron Hance, Jeremy. “The Real Avatar Story: Indigenous People Fight to Save Their Forest Homes from Corporate Exploitation”, Mongabay, 22 December 2009, http://news.mongabay.com/2009/12/the-real-avatar-story-indigenous-people-fight-to-save-their-forest -homes-from-corporate-exploitation/ Harper, Benjamin. James Cameron's Avatar: The Na’vi Quest. Based on the New Movie, New York: HarperCollins, 2009 Holben, Jay. “Conquering New Worlds”, American Cinematographer, January 2010, pp. 32-47 Independent online, various articles on James Cameron, www.independent.co.uk/topic/JamesCameron Internet Movie Database, “Avatar“ (website with diverse materials, including over 700 professional reviews and over 3000 user comments), http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0499549/ James Cameron Online (fan website), www.jamescamerononline.com/ James Cameron’s Avatar (official website), http://www.avatarmovie.com/index.html Joiner, James. ”James Cameron on Getting Over Dread, Despair and Yourself Long Enough to Believe in Climate Change” (interview), Esquire, 23 September 2014, http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/news/a30043/james-cameron-on-the-climate-crisis/ Keegan, Rebecca. “James Cameron on Titanic’s Legacy and the Impact of a Fox Studio Sale”, Vanity Fair online, 26 November 2017, https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2017/11/james-cameron-titanic-20th-anniversary-avatar-terminat or-fox-studios-sale Kelly, Stephen. “James Cameron on Terminator 2, Avatar and the Future of Cinema”, Wired online, 21 August 2017, http://www.wired.co.uk/article/terminator-2-3d-james-cameron-interview Learn Na’Vi (fan website), http://www.learnnavi.org Mahoney, Kevin Patrick. The Ultimate Fan’s Guide to Avatar, James Cameron's Epic Movie, Punked Books, 2010 Parts of this book are available at https://books.google.de/books?id=-ZWhqcOYkwYC&pg=PA1&lpg=PA1&dq=Mahoney,+Kevin+Patrick.+The+Ultimat e+Fan%E2%80%99s+Guide+to+Avatar,+James+Cameron%27s+Epic+Movie&source=bl&ots=323-zWIJgs&sig=5n7-C9Tg uBCF1PguiUmCiQ_GYhs&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwix0JO8qO3LAhWGJw8KHSlaCI0Q6AEIPjAE#v=onepage&q=Mahoney%2C %20Kevin%20Patrick.%20The%20Ultimate%20Fan%E2%80%99s%20Guide%20to%20Avatar%2C%20James%20Cameron%27s %20Epic%20Movie&f=false Metacritic, “Avatar” (website with over 30 professional reviews and over 800 viewers’ comments), http://www.metacritic.com/movie/avatar Movie Review Query Engine, “Avatar” (website with almost 300 professional reviews), http://www.mrqe.com/movie_reviews/avatar-m100046222 The New York Times online, various articles on James Cameron, https://www.nytimes.com/topic/person/james-cameron Nikiforuk, Andrew. “James Cameron Glides into the Tar Sands” (partly based on interview), The Tyee, 30 September 2010, http://thetyee.ca/Opinion/2010/09/30/JamesCameronTarSands/ Pandorapedia: The Official Field Guide (official website), www.pandorapedia.com Rickard, Erin. “Avatar: Things Old, New, and Blue”, Gender Across Borders: A Feminist Blog, 4 January 2010, https://genderacrossborders.wordpress.com/2010/01/04/avatar-things-old-new-and-blue/ (check links at the bottom of the page for further discussions of Avatar and feminism) Rotten Tomatoes, ”Avatar” (website with almost 300 professional reviews and over 100,000 viewers’ comments), http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/avatar/ Stock, Francine. “James Cameron: A Life in Pictures” (interview), British Academy of Film and Television Arts, 20 December 2011, http://www.bafta.org/film/features/james-cameron-a-life-in-pictures Stock, Francine. “James Cameron on the Bestselling Film of All Time” (interview), BBC Radio 4, 23 April 2010, http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00s0y06 Thompson, Anne. “Beyond Movies: James Cameron is Exploring New Frontiers” (interview), Popular Mechanics, 3 October 2011, http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/movies/a7233/beyond-movies-james-cameron-is-exploring-new-f rontiers/ Tree of Souls: An Avatar Community Forum (fan website), http://www.tree-of-souls.com Walsh, Bryan. “Q&A: Avatar Director James Cameron on Oil Sands and Environmentalism”, Time, 29 September 2010, http://science.time.com/2010/09/29/qa-avatar-director-james-cameron-on-oil-sands-and-environmentali sm/ Whitlock, Scott. “James Cameron: Climate ‘Denialists’ ‘on the Right’ Won’t Face Globe’s ‘Biggest Crisis’” (interview), mrc Newsbusters, 16 September 2015, http://newsbusters.org/blogs/nb/scott-whitlock/2015/09/16/james-cameron-climate-denialists-right-wo nt-face-globes-biggest Wilhelm, Maria, and Dirk Mathison. James Cameron’s Avatar: An Activist Survival Guide, New York: itbooks, 2009 Wilhelm, Maria, and Dirk Mathison. James Cameron’s Avatar: The Movie Scrapbook, New York: HarperCollins, 2009 Years of Living Dangerously (official website), http://yearsoflivingdangerously.com/ YouTube, ”Avatar (2009)” (trailers, parodies, analyses etc.), https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=avatar+%282009%29 For the next two sections, I have mainly used Google Books and Google Scholar as well as the JSTOR, Project Muse, MLA, FIAF and ProQuest databases (which you may have access to through the university library) to compile a list of academic publications on Avatar. Many of the journal essays should be accessible through the e-journal collection of the university library. Others are freely accessible online. Section 2 is concerned with film analysis as well as discussions of the technology used in the making of Avatar, and discussions of the work of James Cameron more generally, including some pieces about his political activism. Section 3 deals with the film’s marketing and critical reception, and with the film’s audiences. 2 Film Analysis, Film Technology and James Cameron AbdelRahim, Layla. “Avatar: An Anarcho-Primitivist Picture of the History of the World”, Works by Layla AbdelRahim, 23 December 2009, http://layla.miltsov.org/avatar-an-anarcho-primitivist-picture-of-the-history-of-the-world/ AbdelRahim, Layla. “Source of Life: Avatar, Amazonia, and an Ecology of Selves”, Material Ecocriticism, ed. Serenella Iovion and Serpil Oppermann, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013 Adamson, Joni. “Indigenous Literatures, Multinaturalism, and Avatar: The Emergence of Indigenous Cosmopolitics”, American Literary History, vol. 24, no. 1 (2012), pp. 143-62 Adamson, Joni. “Source of Life: Avatar, Amazonia, and an Ecology of Selves”, Material Ecocriticism, ed. Serenella Iovino and Serpil Oppermann, Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2014, pp. 253-68, most of this chapter is available at https://books.google.de/books?id=zIRICgAAQBAJ&pg=PA253&dq=%E2%80%9CSource+of+Life:+Avatar,+Amazonia ,+and+an+Ecology+of+Selves%E2%80%9D&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%E2%80%9CSource%20of%20Life% 3A%20Avatar%2C%20Amazonia%2C%20and%20an%20Ecology%20of%20Selves%E2%80%9D&f=false Alession, Dominic, and Kristen Meredith. “Decolonising James Cameron’s Pandora: Imperial History and Science Fiction”, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History, vol. 13, no. 2 (Fall 2012), typescript available at http://www.press.jhu.edu/directmail/cch14/documents/cch_alessio.pdf Alexander, Jonathan. “Aesthetics and Artificiality from A Rebours to Avatar: Some Varieties of the Virtual since 1884”, Science Fiction Studies, vol. 41, no. 3 (November 2014), pp. 502-23 Anglin, Sallie. “Generative Motion: Queer Ecology and Avatar”, Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 48, no. 2 (April 2015), pp. 341-54 Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 7, no. 3 (November 2012), special issue on Avatar, ed. William Brown and Jenna Ng Baum, Bruce. “Hollywood on Race in the Age of Obama: Invictus, Precious, and Avatar”, New Political Science, vol. 32, no. 4 (2010), pp. 627-36 Bedard, Philippe. “The Protean Camera”, Synoptique: An Online Journal of Film and Moving Image Studies, vol. 5, no. 2 (Winter 2017), pp. 15-36, http://synoptique.hybrid.concordia.ca/index.php/main/article/view/146/183 Belton, John. “Digital 3D Cinema’s Missing Novelty Phase”, Film History, vol. 24, no. 2 (2012), pp. 187-95, (2012), pp. 187-95 Bennett, Bruce. “Loving the Alien: Indigenous Protest and Neo-Colonial Violence in James Cameron’s Avatar”, Immigrant Protest: Politics, Aesthetics, and Everyday Dissent, ed. Katarzyna Marciniak and Imogen Taylor, Albany: SUNY Press, 2014, pp. 97-121, typescript available at http://www.academia.edu/2971585/Loving_the_Alien_Indigenous_Protest_and_Neo-Colonial_Violence_in_Ja mes_Cameron_s_Avatar Bergthaller, Hannes. “A Sense of No-Place: Avatar and the Pitfalls of Ecocentric Identification”, European Journal of English Studies, vol. 16, no. 2 (2012), pp. 151-62 Bowman, James. “Avatar and the Flight from Reality”, The New Atlantis, no. 27 (Spring 2010), pp. 77-84, http://www.thenewatlantis.com/publications/avatar-and-the-flight-from-reality Briones, Claudia. “Scientific Avatars or Doing Anthropology of (and against) Our Modern Discontent”, Postcolonial Studies, vol. 14, no. 3 (September 2011), pp. 313-29 Brown, William. “Avatar: Stereoscopic Cinema, Gaseous Perception and Darkness”, Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal, vol. 7, no. 3 (November 2012), pp. 259-71 Cafard, Max. “Intergalactic Blues: Fantasy and Ideology in Avatar”, Psychic Swamp: The Surre(gion)al Review, no. 1 (2010), pp. 9-41, https://issuu.com/stephanz/docs/psychic_swamp__1/1 Cammarota, Julio. “Blindsided by the Avatar: White Saviors and Allies out of Hollywood and in Education”, Review of Education, Pedagogy and Cultural Studies, vol. 33, no. 3 (July-August 2011), pp. 242-59 Chan, Melanie. Virtual Reality: Representations in Contemporary Media, New York: Bloomsbury, 2014 (Ch. 6 on Avatar) Chou, Shiuhhuah Serena.” Claiming the Sacred: Indigenous Knowledge, Spiritual Ecology, and the Emergence of Eco-cosmopolitanism”, Cultura: International Journal of Philosophy of Culture and Axiology, vol. 12, no. 1 (2015), pp. 71-84 Clarke, James. The Cinema of James Cameron: Bodies in Heroic Motion, London: Wallflower Press, 2014 Collins, Marsha S. “Echoing Romance: James Cameron’s Avatar as Ecoromance”, Mosaic: A Journal for the Interdisciplinary Study of Literature, vol. 47, no. 2 (June 2014), pp. 103-19 Cottle, Stuart Leslie. The Ethnographer’s Nostalgia in Hollywood: Towards a Dialectic of the Frontier, PhD dissertation, University of Sydney, 2017 (Ch. 4 partly about Avatar), accessible online through https://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/handle/2123/17117 Decker, Mark T. Industrial Society and the Science Fiction Blockbuster: Social Critique in Films of Lucas, Scott and Cameron, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2016 (Ch. 6 partly on Avatar) DeConick, April D. The Gnostic New Age: How a Countercultural Spirituality Revolutionized Religion from Antiquity to Today, New York: Columbia University Press, 201 (Ch. 8 partly on Avatar) Der Derian, James. “Now We Are All Avatars”, Millennium: Journal of International Studies, vol. 39, no. 1(2010), pp. 181-6 Deuze, Mark. “Survival of the Mediated”, Journal of Cultural Science, vol. 3, no. 2 (2010), http://www.cultural-science.org/journal/index.php/culturalscience/article/viewFile/42/158 Dunn, George (ed.). Avatar and Philosophy: Learning to See, Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014 Eickholt, Swen Schulte. “Sehnsucht nach der Immanenz: James Camerons Avatar – Aufbruch nach Pandora als Utopie des göttlichen Menschen“, Religion und Literatur im 20. und 21. Jahrhundert: Motive, Sprechweisen, Medien, ed. Tim Lörke and Robert Walter-Jochum, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2015, pp. 495-513 Elsaesser, Thomas. “James Cameron’s Avatar: Access for All”, New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 9, no. 3 (September 2011), pp. 247-64, Elsaesser, Thomas. “Auteurism Today: Signature Products, Concept-Authors and Access for All: Avatar”, The Persistence of Hollywood, New York: Routledge, 2012, pp. 281-304 Erb, Cynthia. “A Spiritual Blockbuster: Avatar, Environmentalism, and the New Religions”, Journal of Film and Video, vol. 66, no. 3 (Fall 2013), pp. 3-17 Escher, Anton. “Naturaneignung durch Hollywood: Anmerkungen zur gesellschaftlichen Bedeutung der phantastischen Natur im Spielfilm Avatar – Aufbruch nach Pandora“, Sehnsucht nach Natur: Über den Drang nach draußen in der heutigen Freizeitkultur, ed. Thomas Kirchhoff, Vera Vicenzotti and Annette Voigt, Bielefeld: transcript, 2012, pp. 237-61, https://books.google.de/books?id=WujWBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA253&lpg=PA253&dq=dongria+kondh+james+cameron&sou rce=bl&ots=yt48yWQg0u&sig=KdJ7cueUgqJYwMJC0yMPaRi00Nw&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwipzZmSh5rMAhVEVxQKHfkMB sEQ6AEIazAM#v=onepage&q=dongria%20kondh%20james%20cameron&f=false Fatu-Tutoveano, Andrada. “From Cinema Myths to Science Fantasy: Contemporary Hybrid Cinema and Sci-Fi ‘Avatars’”, Caietele Echinox/Echinox Journal, vol. 26 (2014), pp. 170-80 Fernandez, Ramona. “The Somatope: From Bakhtin's Chronotope to Haraway's Cyborg via James Cameron's Dark Angel and Avatar”, Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 47, no. 6 (December 2014), pp. 1122-38 Flory, Dan. “Race and Imaginative Resistance in James Cameron’s Avatar”, Projections: The Journal for Movies and Mind, vol. 7, no. 2 (Winter 2013), pp. 41-63 Flynn, Susan. “’Get your legs back’: Avatar (2009) and the Re-booting of American Individualism”, Cultures of Representation: Disability in World Cinemas, ed. Benjamin Fraer, New York: Columbia University Press, 2016, pp. 200-15 Fore, Dana. “The Tracks of Sully’s Tears: Disability in James Cameron’s Avatar”, Jump Cut, no. 53 (Summer 2011), http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc53.2011/foreAvatar/text.html Gaine, Vincent M. “The Emergence of Feminine Humanity from a Technologised Masculinity in the Films of James Cameron”, Journal of Technology, Theology, and Religion, vol. 2, no. 4 (July 2011), http://www.techandreligion.com/Resources/Gaine%20JTTR.pdf Gaschler, Peter M. “Jules Verne antwortet nicht mehr: Von Journey to the Center of the Earth bis Avatar – Hollwoods neue 3D-Offensive”, Das Science Fiction Jahr 2010, ed. Sascha Mamczak and Wolfgang Jeschke, Munich: Heyne, 2010 Goggin, Joyce. “Like Pocahontas on Drugs: Avatar and Adaptation”, Interfaces: Image Texte Language, vol. 34 (2013), pp. 103-113, http://college.holycross.edu/interfaces/vol34/pocahontas.pdf Good Fox, Julia. “Avatars to the Left of Me, Pandora to the Right: An Indigenous Woman Considers James Cameron’s Avatar”, Good Fox (blog) 2 September 2012, http://juliagoodfox.com/2012/09/02/avatar/ Görlich, Teresa. Zwischen Beziehung und Beziehungslosigkeit: Der Film Avatar theologisch gewürdigt, Saarbrücken: AV Akademikerverlag, 2015 Grabiner, Ellen. I See You: The Shifting Paradigms of James Cameron’s Avatar, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2012 Heard, Christopher. Dreaming Aloud: The Life and Films of James Cameron, Toronto: Doubleday Canada, 1997 Heuston, Sean. “Cheering American Casualties? Avatar and the Global War on Terror”, Review of Arts and Humanities, vol. 3, no. 3/4 (December 2014), pp. 1-13, http://rah-net.com/journals/rah/Vol_3_No_3_4_December_2014/1.pdf Hillis, Ken. “From Capital to Karma: James Cameron’s Avatar”, Postmodern Culture, vol. 19, no. 1 (May 2009) Huang, Hsinya, and Clara Shu-Chun Chang (eds). Aspects of Transnational and Indigenous Cultures, Newcastle upon Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014 (Ch. 7 partly on Avatar) Hughey, Matthew. The White Savior Film: Content, Critics, and Consumption, Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2014 Hyland, Robert. “Going Na’vi: Mastery in Avatar”, CineAction, no. 82/3 (2011), pp. 10-16 Jampolsky, Jacquelyn Amour. “Activism s the New Black: Demonstrating the Benefits of International Celebrity Activism through James Cameron’s Campaign against the Belo Monte Dam”, Colorado Journal of International Environmental Law and Policy, vol. 23, no. 1 (Winter 2012), pp. 227-56 Jockenhövel, Jesko. Der digitale 3D-Film: Narration, Stereoskopie, Filmstil, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2014 (Ch. 5 partly on Avatar) Kappell, Matthew Wilhelm, and Stephen McVeigh (eds). The Films of James Cameron: Critical Essays, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011 Keegan, Rebecca. The Futurist: The Life and Films of James Cameron, New York: Crown, 2009 Keller, Alexandra. James Cameron, London: Routledge, 2006 Kinder, John M. Paying With Their Bodies: American War and the Problem of the Disabled Veteran, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2015 (Epilogue partly on Avatar) Klassen, Chris. “Avatar, Dark Green Religion, and the Technological Construction of Nature”, Cultural Studies Review, vol. 18, no. 2 (2012), pp. 74-88 König, Christiane. “Not Becoming-Posthuman in the Ultimate Postfilmic Posthuman Male Fantasy: Queer Feminist Observations on James Cameron’s Avatar (2009)”, Gender Forum, no. 32 (2011), pp. 1-12, http://www.genderforum.org/issues/historical-masculinities-as-an-intersectional-problem/not-becomin g-posthuman-in-the-ultimate-postfilmic-posthuman-male-fantasy/ Krämer, Peter. “Avatar: Environmental Politics and Worldwide Success”, Pure Movies, 6 November 2013, http://www.puremovies.co.uk/columns/avatar-environmental-politics-and-worldwide-success/ Krämer, Peter. “The 3-D Experience and Hero’s Journey of Avatar”, ThinkingFilmCollective blogspot, 31 January 2016, http://thinkingfilmcollective.blogspot.co.uk/2016/01/the-3-d-experience-and-heros-journey-in.html Lawtoo, Nidesh. “Avatar Simulation in 3Ts: Techne, Trance, Transformation”, Science Fiction Studies, vol. 42, no. 1 (March 2015), pp. 132-50 Lertzman, Renee. “Desire, Longing and the Return to the Garden: Reflections on Avatar”, Ecopsychology, vol. 2, no. 1 (2010), pp. 41-3 Levitt, Deborah. “The Subject of the Phantasm: Affect, Immersion, and Difference in Avatar“, Scholar and Feminist Online, vol. 10, no. 3 (Summer 2010), http://sfonline.barnard.edu/feminist-media-theory/the-subject-of-the-phantasm-affect-immersion-and- difference-in-avatar/ Lioi, Anthony. “The Triumph of Eywa: Avatar, Pantheism, and the Sign of a Green Ecumene”, Ecozon@: European Journal of Literature, Culture and Environment, vol. 2, no. 2 (2011), pp. 40-59 Madsen, Kenneth D. “Blue Indians: Teaching the Political Geography of Imperialism with Fictional Film”, Journal of Geography, vol. 113, no. 2 (2014), pp. 47-57 Martinez-Falquina, Silvia. “’The Pandora Effect’: James Cameron’s Avatar and a Trauma Studies Perspective”, Atlantis: Revista de la Asociación Española de Estudios Anglo-Norteamericanos, vol. 36, no. 2 (December 2014), pp. 115-131 http://www.atlantisjournal.org/index.php/atlantis/article/view/118/100 Marubbio, M. Elise. “Decolonizing the Western: A Revisionist Analysis of Avatar with a Twist”, The Post-2000 Film Western: Contexts, Transnationality, Hybridity, ed. Marek Paryz and John R. Leo, London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015, pp. 167-90 McGowan, Todd. “Maternity Divided: Avatar and the Enjoyment of Nature”, Jump Cut, no. 52 (2010), http://www.ejumpcut.org/archive/jc52.2010/mcGowanAvatar Meyer, Sabine M. “’Yes, Avatar is Dances With Wolves in space … sorta’: Repetitions and Shades of Difference in Two Blockbusters”, Remakes and Remaking: Concepts – Media – Practices, ed. Rüdiger Heinze and Lucia Krämer, Bielefeld: transcript, 2015, pp. 153-71 Molloy, Claire. “Animals, Avatars and the Gendering of Nature”, Screening Nature: Cinema beyond the Human, ed. Anat Pick and Guinevere Narraway, New York: Berghahn, 2013, pp. 177-93, available at https://books.google.de/books?id=qPUcAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA191&dq=avatar+%282009%29&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y# v=onepage&q=avatar%20%282009%29&f=false Morton, Timothy. “Pandora’s Box: Avatar, Ecology, Thought”, Green Planets: Ecology and Science Fiction, ed. Gerry Canavan and Kim Stanley Robinson, Middletown, CT: Wesleyan University Press, 2014, pp. 206-25 Mulrooney, Jonathan. “The Sadness of Avatar”, The Wordsworth Circle, vol. 42, no. 3 (Summer 2011), pp. 201-4 Nesbitt, Jennifer P. “Deactivating Feminism: Sigourney Weaver, James Cameron and Avatar”, Film & History: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Film and Television, vol. 46, no. 1 (Summer 2016), pp. 21-32 Norton, Steven. “How the Other Is Not Allowed to Be: Elision and Condensation in Avatar”, Arizona Quarterly, vol. 69, no. 2 (Summer 2013), pp. 131-44 Parisi, Paula. Titanic and the Making of James Cameron, London: Orion, 1998 Peterson, Mark C. E. “Avatar, Marx and the Alienation of Labor”, Homer Simpson Ponders Politics: Popular Culture as Political Theory, ed. Joseph J. Foy and Timothy M. Dale, Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 2013, pp. 115-30, https://books.google.de/books?id=dvnAmHgqTX4C&pg=PA115&lpg=PA115&dq=Peterson,+Mark+C.+E.+“Avatar,+M arx+and+the+Alienation+of+Labor”,+Homer+Simpson+Ponders+Politics:+Popular+Culture+as+Political+Theo ry&source=bl&ots=2M40BqMzTM&sig=zXY1Qj_JQTJvR8RN-OctUJKC8GA&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjf4O7_5ZLMAhWDWCw KHWw8DvYQ6AEIIDAB#v=onepage&q&f=false Peterson, Michael, Laurie Beth Clark, and Lisa Nakamura. “’I See You?’: Gender and Disability in Avatar”, FlowTV, vol. 11, no. 7, 5 February 2010, http://flowtv.org/?p=4784 Pheasant-Kelly, Frances. Fantasy Film Post 9/11, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2013 (Ch. 9 on Avatar) Prince, Stephen. Digital Visual Effects in Cinema (The Seduction of Reality), New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2012 (check index for references to Avatar) Purse, Lisa. Digital Imaging in Popular Cinema, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2013 (check index for references to Avatar) Read, Rupert. “Avatar: A Call to Save the Future”, Radical Anthropology, no. 4 (November 2010), pp. 35-41 Read, Rupert. “Avatar: A transformed cinema, a transformation of self, (and then) a transformation of world”, ThinkingFilmCollective blogspot, 11 October 2013, http://thinkingfilmcollective.blogspot.co.uk/2013/10/avatar-transformed-cinema.html Richmond, Scott R. “On Learning to Fly at the Movies: Avatar and How to Train Your Dragon”, Journal of Narrative Theory, vol. 46, no.2 (Summer 2016), pp. 254-83 Rieder, John. “Race and Revenge Fantasies in Avatar, District 9 and Inglorious Basterds”, Science Fiction Film and Television, vol. 4, no. 1 (Spring 2011), pp. 41-56 https://postcolonialscifi.files.wordpress.com/2015/02/race-and-revenge.pdf Rogers, Ariel. Cinematic Appeals: The Experience of New Movie Technologies, New York: Columbia University Press, 2013 (Ch. 4 partly on Avatar) Ross, Miriam. “The 3-D Aesthetic: Avatar and Hyperhaptic Visuality”, Screen, vol. 53, no. 4 (Winter 2012), pp. 381-97 Ross, Sara. “Invitation to the Voyage: The Flight Sequence in Contemporary 3D-Cinema”, Film History, vol. 24, no. 2 (2012), pp. 210-20 Russell, John G. “Don’t It Make My Black Face Blue: Race, Avatars, Albescence, and the Transnational Imaginary”, Journal of Popular Culture, vol. 46, no. 1 (2013), pp. 192-217, http://bahamateach.yolasite.com/resources/Avatar%20Race.pdf Schuller, Kyla. “Avatar and the Movements of Neocolonial Sentimental Cinema”, Discourse: Journal for Theoretical Studies in Media and Culture, vol. 35, no. 2 (Spring 2013), pp. 177-93 Seegert, Alf. “Till We Have [Inter]Faces: The Cybercultural Ecologies of Avatar”, Western Humanities Review, vol. 64, no. 2 (Summer 2010), pp. 112-131 Shapiro, Mark. James Cameron: An Unauthorized Biography, Los Angeles: Renaissance, 2000 Shumway, David R. “Looking Backward, Looking Forward: Utopia, Avatar, and the Loss of Progressive Metanarrative”, StoryWorlds: A Journal of Narrative Studies, vol. 6, no. 1 (Summer 2014), pp. 45-59 Spanakos, Anthony Peter. “Exceptional Recognition: The U.S. Global Dilemma in The Incredible Hulk, Iron Man, and Avatar”, The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film, ed. Richard J. Gray and Betty Kaklamanidou, Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2011, pp. 15-28 Spiegel, Simon. “Ein blaues Wunder: Wie James Camerons Avatar den Zuschauer in eine fremde Welt entführt”, Das Science Fiction Jahr 2010, ed. Sascha Mamczak and Wolfgang Jeschke, Munich: Heyne, 2010, pp. 361-88 Spiegel, Simon. “Das blaue Wunder: Naturalisierung, Verfremdung und digitale Figuren in James Cameron’s Avatar”, Fremde Welten: Wege und Räume der Fantastik im 21. Jahrhundert, ed. Lars Schmeink and Hans-Harld Müller, Berlin: de Gruyter, 2012, pp. 203-21, http://www.simifilm.ch/pdf/Spiegel.S2012d.pdf Starosielski, Nicole. “’Movements that are drawn’: A History of Environmental Animation from The Lorax to FernGully to Avatar”, The International Communication Gazette, vol. 73, nos. 1-2 (2011), pp. 145-63 Taylor, Bron and Adrian Ivakhiv. “Opening Pandora’s Film”, Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature and Culture, vol. 4, no. 4 (2011), pp. 384-393 Thakur, Gautam Basu. Postcolonial Theory and Avatar, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, most of the book available at https://books.google.de/books?id=bE6XCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT85&dq=avatar+%282009%29&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v =onepage&q=avatar%20%282009%29&f=false Tucker, Aaron. Interfacing with the Internet in Popular Cinema, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014 (Ch. 3 on Avatar) Tzanelli, Rodanthi. Heritage in the Digital Era: Cinematic Tourism and the Activist Cause, Abingdon: Routledge, 2013 (Ch. 6 on Avatar, partially accessible at https://books.google.de/books?id=VJBuBAylgKQC&pg=PA148&dq=avatar+(2009)&hl=de&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjklZW Q7IDaAhUmxqYKHdzXAv0Q6AEIZjAI#v=onepage&q=avatar%20(2009)&f=false) Vugman, Fernando Simao. “Avatar as Symptom: Hollywood Mythological Narrative and Crisis”, Revista Critica Cultural, vol. 9, no. 1 (2014), pp. 137-44, http://www.portaldeperiodicos.unisul.br/index.php/Critica_Cultural/article/view/2344/1660 Westerman, Bianca. “Meeting the Other: Cyborgs, Aliens and Beyond”, Alien Imaginations: Science Fiction and Tales of Transnationalism, ed. Ulrike Küchler, Silja Maehl and Graeme Stout, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015, pp. 141-58 Whissel, Kristen. Spectacular Digital Effects: CGI and Contemporary Cinema, Durham: Duke University Press, 2014 (check index for references to Avatar) Young-Roberts, Bryn V. The Film Reader’s Guide To James Cameron's Avatar, Foxworth Publishing, 2012, parts of the book available at https://books.google.de/books?id=BaW7AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA7&dq=avatar+%282009%29&hl=de&sa=X&redir_esc=y#v= onepage&q=avatar%20%282009%29&f=false 3 Marketing, Reception and Audiences Acland, Charles. “Avatar as Technological Tentpole”, FlowTV, vol. 11, no. 6, 22 January 2010, http://flowtv.org/?p=4724 Acland, Charles. “You Haven’t Seen Avatar Yet”, FlowTV, vol. 13, no. 8, 11 February 2011, http://flowtv.org/2011/02/you-havent-seen-avatar/ Acland, Charles. “The End of James Cameron’s Quiet Years”, Media Studies Futures, ed. Kelly Gates, London: Blackwell, 2015, pp. 1-27 Huleatt, Richard. “Avatar in the Palestinian (Imagi)nation: An Interview with Professar Yosefa Loshitzky”, R/R Real/Reel (website), 26 April 2012, https://realreeljournal.com/2012/04/26/avatar/ Jenkins, Henry. “Avatar Activism”, Le Monde diplomatique, September 2010, http://mondediplo.com/2010/09/15avatar Jenkins, Henry. “Confessions of an Aca-Fan: Avatar Activism and Beyond”, Confessions of an Aca-Fan, 22 September 2010, http://henryjenkins.org/2010/09/avatar_activism_and_beyond.html Journal for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (academic journal), https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/JSRNC; especially vol. 4, no. 4 (2010) and vol. 6, no. 2 (2012) Loshitzky, Yosefa. “Popular Cinema as Popular Resistance: Avatar in the Palestinian (Imagi)nation”, Third Text, vol. 26, no. 2 (March 2012), pp. 151-63 Michelle, Carolyn, Charles H. Davis and Florin Vladica. “Understanding Variation in Audience Engagement and Response: An Application of the Composite Model to Receptions of Avatar (2009)”, The Communication Review, vol. 15, no. 2 (2012), pp. 106-42 Mitchell, Emma. “Seeing Blue: Negotiating the Politics of Avatar Media Activism”, unpublished undergraduate thesis, University of Sydney, 2011, http://ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/2123/8038/1/Mitchell_honsthesis_2011.pdf Schreyer, Christine. “The Digital Fandom of Na’vi Speakers”, Transformative Works and Cultures, vol. 18 (2015), http://testjournal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/article/view/610/512 Taylor, Bron (ed.). Avatar and Nature Spirituality, Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2013 Taylor, Bron. Homepage, http://www.brontaylor.com/ Taylor, Bron. ”Battleground Pandora: The War over James Cameron’s Avatar”, Bright Lights Film Journal, 25 January 2014, http://brightlightsfilm.com/battleground-pandora-the-war-over-james-camerons-avatar/#.VveEbnpftXA von Mossner, Alexa Weik (ed.). Moving Environments: Affect, Emotion, Ecology, and Film, Waterloo, Ontario: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2014 (ch. 8 on Avatar, ch. 11 on, among other things, A Message from Pandora)