Stephen Lee Naish

While Stephen Lee Naish’s Post-Catastrophe Film is a very useful examination of recent works that, in one way or another, explore what life would look like after various societally-transforming events, the book is at its most intriguing in its first

So how exactly does examining a film minute by minute change ones perspective on the material? Well, stick around, As Stephen and I discuss, dissect and deepdive, Katheryn Bigelow's Point Break.

Author Stephen Lee Naish (my second ever guest!) re-joins the Radio FWD Podcast to discuss his new book, Point Break: Movies Minute by Minute for the TimeCodes Series. We talk about how well the film holds up today, what makes it such a cult classic,…

Interview conducted by Rebekah Buchanan for the New Books Network podcast series.

(Kingston, Ontario) For Kingston film critic and researcher, Stephen Lee Naish, 2026 has been a big year for publications. Naish has three books slated for publication this year, all exploring film through various lenses such as pop culture studies,

Review of Post-Catastrophe Film by Noah Hermes deBoor for Optic Nerve Magazine

Interview conducted by editor Mary Baxter for NiCHE Canada about Post-Catastrophe Film.

Book review of Post-Catastrophe Film by Eoghan Lyng for Spectrum Culture

Stephen Lee Naish's Screen Captures, a collection of essays on film and media at the intersection of politics, addresses the exigencies and effects of our contemporary moment. Part diatribe, part call to action, and part auto-theoretical excavation,

Review of: Transformative Power of Music in the World of Dennis Hopper Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper, Stephen Lee Naish (2024) New York: Routledge, 92pp., ISBN: 9781032737690 (hbk), $66.99

Nya insikter om Lynch och Hopper väcker mersmak efter musikvetare som skriver om film.

In this episode we delve into one of the signature commercial and critical flops of New Hollywood: Dennis Hopper’s The Last Movie. This gorgeous yet impenetrable film was a crucial turning point...

Author Stephen Lee Naish joins Shawn Gouralnik to discuss the music and sound of Dennis Hopper's films. We focused our discussion on the seminal 1969 film, Easy Rider, a Counterculture classic featuring a time capsule of 60s rock and roll. Stephen…

Sophia Fuller: Tell us a little about yourself; what got you into writing? Stephen Lee Naish: I studied film and media way back in the late 1990s and early 2000s in the city of Leicester, UK, where I grew up. … Continue reading →

Writer, Stephen Lee Naish joins Nicole and Ryan to talk about 4 soundtracks from films that Dennis Hopper directed: Easy Rider, The Last Movie, Out of the Blue, and…

Stephen's book is availble here. 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.…

Season 1: Do You Love Us? (Manic Street Preachers) The Big Mates are joined by author of Riffs & Meaning: Manic Street Preachers and Know Your Enemy, Stephen …

“’Know Your Enemy’ is an example of the Manics’ iconoclast tendencies,” Naish explains. “But very little has been written about it and its obtuseness has mostly been forgotten or dismissed.”

In Riffs and Meaning: Manic Street Preachers and Know Your Enemy (Headpress, 2018), Stephen Lee Naish tells the story of Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers’ 2001 album Know Your Enemy.

Review of Deconstructing Dirty Dancing by Penny Montague for LSE Review of Books.