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,

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

The Timecodes series fills an important gap in film writing, marrying a distinctive, passionate approach to specific films with critical analysis and context. Each volume focuses on one film, exploring it minute-by-minute.

Steve Naish dissects Kathryn Bigelow's early 1990s' dirty classic, revealing a film broken into two opposing dualities that reflect the spirit of the leads (played by Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze) - find out more about the new book

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

By Stephen Lee Naish Post-apocalyptic narratives often take place deep into the future and depict an environment that is barren, resource deprived and ruled by monstrous warlords.

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

YouTuber-turned-filmmaker explores our modern fear of soulless workspaces with a horror movie rooted in an old internet obsession - in cinemas on Friday, May 29th

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

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

Post-catastrophe world transitions toward a viable future, in this meaningful yet humdrum sequel to the 2021 movie - on selected VoD platforms

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, ...

While the ecological crisis that befalls the country is relegated to the background, it is worth looking at the narrative of survival through the lens of the ‘post-catastrophe’ framework.

Clint Bentley's second directorial feature is a impactful study of a construction worker navigating the unseen upheavals of modernity from his refreshingly rural vantage point - now on Netflix

In the introduction to his 1980 book A Cinema of Loneliness: Penn, Kubrick, Scorsese, Spielberg, Altman, film critic Robert Kolker notes that the films made by these male auteurs “speak to a continual impotence in the world, an inability to change

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,