Introduction ix
Chronology xix
Filmography xxv
Nicholas Ray: The Last Interview
by Sarah Fatima Parsons / 1979 3
A Visit with the Master of Melodrama: Douglas Sirk
by Monty Montgomery / 1982 10
Revamping Vampires
by Marcia Froelke Coburn /1987 17
Black-Leather Director in a Business World
by Clarke Taylor / 1988 20
Happiness Is a Warm Gun
by Phoebe Hoban / 1988-1990 24
Dark by Design
by Victoria Hamburg / 1989 30
Blue Steel: Kathryn Bigelow in Action
by Nancy Mills / 1989 40
Genre Bender
by Kenneth Turan / 1989 42
Kathryn Bigelow's Disturbing Vision
by Gerald Peary / 1990 46
James Cameron and Kathryn Bigelow
by Tom Johnson / 1990 50
From Style to Steel
by Nick James / 1990 61
Hollywood's Macho Woman
by Mark Salisbury / 1991 64
Kathryn Bigelow
by Ana Maria Bahiana / 1992 67
Momentum and Design: Kathryn Bigelow Interviewed
by Gavin Smith / 1995 73
Kathryn Bigelow: Vicarious Thrills
by Sheila Johnston / 1995 91
Reality Bytes
by Andrew Hultkrans / 1995 95
Strange Days Probes Import of Vicarious Living
by David Sterritt / 1995 103
Happy New Millennium
by Roald Rynning / 1996 105
Action Figure
by Johanna Schneller / 1999-2002 109
Direct from the Gut
by Peter Howell / 2000 117
K-19: The Widowmaker. A Film by Kathryn Bigelow
by Ted Elick / 2002 120
Her Underwater Canvas
by Richard Natale / 2002 129
K-19: The Widowmaker. Harrison Ford and Kathryn Bigelow Interview
by Scott Huver / 2002 134
"I Like to Be Strong"
by Stuart Jeffries / 2002 138
Time's Up
by Nick Dawson / 2009 142
An Interview with Hurt Locker's Kathryn Bigelow
by Robert Horton / 2009 150
Interview: Kathryn Bigelow
by Scott Tobias / 2009 153
Kathryn Bigelow to Movieline: "I Thrive on Production. I Don't Know-if I Thrive in Normal Life."
by Kyle Buchanan / 2009 159
Interview with Kathryn Bigelow
by Ryan Stewart / 2009 164
Big Bang Theory: Kathryn Bigelow Breaks out with The Hurt Locker
by Peter Keough / 2009 169
An Interview with Kathryn Bigelow
by Peter Keough / 2009 172
A Discussion with Kathryn Bigelow at the Harvard Film Archive
by David Pendleton / 2009 180
A Maverick Female Director Explores Men Who Dare Death
by Carrie Rickey / 2009 196
The Hurt Locker Interview: Kathryn Bigelow and Mark Boal
by Kingsley Marshall / 2009 199
Shoot Shoot, Bang Bang
by Paul Hond / 2009 203
Kathryn Bigelow's 2010 Oscar Acceptance Speech
by Kathryn Bigelow / 2010 212
Introduction and Q&A for Museum of Modern Art Retrospective
by Brett Michel / 2011 213
Press Conference for Zero Dark Thirty
by Brett Michel / 2012 219
Additional Resources 235
Index 237