Stephen Lee Naish

Point Break, in Bloomsbury's Timecodes Series, is a detailed, minute-by-minute critical exploration of Kathryn Bigelow's 1991 action film Point Break.

Post-Catastrophe Film - Cinematic Visions in the Aftermath of Disaster; A new sub-genre of film called ‘post-catastrophe’ is emerging and sits in the space between blockbuster disaster movies that use scenes of destruction to blow the world up and

Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency offers a vibrant and accessible collection of essays that explore how films and changes in the media industries reflect and influence our political, cultural, ...

Across his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative, signpost the era in which the films were made, and delineate the characters’ place within American culture. This book explores five of

Riffs & Meaning: Manic Street Preachers and Know Your Enemy: Naish, Stephen Lee: 9781909394568: Books - Amazon.ca

Renowned film critic Roger Ebert said Dirty Dancing 'might have been a decent movie if it had allowed itself to be about anything.' In this broadly...

Dennis Hopper (1936-2010) was one of most charismatic and protean figures to emerge from the American independent film movement of the 1960s and '70s, an incredibly compelling screen presence who helped give cult classics like Easy Rider and Blue

Manic Street Preachers burst onto the music scene in the early nineties as a working-class quartet of fresh faced punks adorned in eyeliner and spray paint. Published in 2021, the book is now out of print.

A spirited, far-sighted guide to politics, Star Wars, the Avengers, David Lynch, and the lost highways between them, for today's capitalist-realist age. Originally published by Newstar Books in 2021. Second edition is being published by Lever Press.

With the rise of digital technology and the excessive use of CGI currently overwhelming cinema, realism and humanity have been dispensed with in favor of spectacle and illusion.