Bøker av Michael Bliss

This special centenary edition of The Discovery of Insulin celebrates a path-breaking medical discovery that has changed lives around the world.

A discussion of Laurel and Hardy films in a way that is both critical and appreciative, Bliss explores how complex the comedic duo's films are in terms of acting, structure, and storyline, also pointing out how the films qualify as comedies in the classic sense even though they subvert the genre's traditional tendency for stories to end well.

Of the twenty or so science fiction films produced in America during the 1950s, there is a fascinating subset of nine films that do more than portray an invasion. These films use the invasions as metaphors for assaults against the integrity of various things, such as the self, marriage, and notions involving the supremacy of the human race.

In considering the films of Peter Weir, this text looks to the filmmaker's Australian heritage. The author also looks to Freud and Jung, whom Weir has studied, to examine why many of Weir's films involve archetypal journeys heading through conflict to spiritual unity.

While John Woo is regarded as a master action director, little attention has been paid to the manner in which Woo's films reflect the director's religious and ethical concerns. This work shows that Woo should be regarded as a predominantly religious director.

This intimate biography of the man is also a history of the origins and development of big business in Canada, of the corporations and institutions that became an integral part of Canadian life during Joseph Flavelle's lifetime.

This collection of nine new essays by major critics on the films of Sam Peckinpah is the first since Bliss's Doing It Right: The Best Criticism on Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch. It brings together in book form groundbreaking criticism on one of the most important and controversial directors in American cinema.

A tour de force, The Making of Modern Medicine is an essential summation of the work of Canada's leading historian of medicine.

An expanded and updated study of the thematic concerns and the underlying humanism and morality in Scorsese's films. Contains individual chapters on fifteen Scorsese films, the most complete Scorsese filmography available, and a host of illustrations.