Director as 'Adrenaline Junkie' - Take Two: Revisiting Kathryn Bigalow After The Hurt Locker

Kathryn Bigelow has persisted as a rare woman in Hollywood: a female director of intriguing genre (and gender) experiments and frenetic high-impact action films. Her body of work during the 1980s and 1990s represents a fascinating departure from the more typical terrain of films made by women, yet there has been no clear shift in her wake towards more wide-ranging projects by female filmmakers. But perhaps that will change – now she stands as a potent symbol for women in Hollywood.