Stephen Prince
Stephen Prince is an American film critic, historian and theorist. He has been Professor of Communication Studies and is now Professor of Cinema at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. His books include The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa and Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies.Works
Original works
- The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa, Princeton University Press.
- Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Films, Praeger.
- Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film
- Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies, University of Texas Press;
- Screening Violence, Rutgers University Press.
- A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989, University of California Press
- Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930–1968, Rutgers University Press
- Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism, Columbia University Press
- Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality, Rutgers University Press
As editor
- Sam Peckinpah's 'The Wild Bunch', Cambridge University Press.
- The Horror Film, Rutgers University Press.
- American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations, Rutgers University Press
DVD & Blu-ray commentary
- Commentary on Kwaidan, The Criterion Collection.
- Commentary on Ikiru, The Criterion Collection.
- Commentary on Ran, The Masterworks Edition.
- Commentary on Sword of Doom, The Criterion Collection.
- Commentary on The Grand Duel Arrow Video
