Bøker av Stevie Simkin

What Makes The Monkey Dance tells the story of one of the most respected musicians of his generation the singular rock n roll artist Chuck Prophet and his former band Green On Red.

The figure of the beautiful but lethal woman has haunted the Western imagination from ancient myth to contemporary film. Looking at news media, cinema, drama and other cultural forms, this study considers the interaction between representations of 'real life' 'femmes fatales' and their fictional counterparts.

This study provides an authoritative overview of all Marlowe's work. The result is a reading of Marlowe that re-opens debates about his status as a radical figure and as a subversive playwright.

The collection as a whole demonstrates a variety of recent critical approaches to the genre, including feminist, psychoanalytic, new historicist and cultural materialist viewpoints, inspiring students to revisit these plays and to engage directly with the politics of the past and present, and the ways in which they interrelate.

In the first in-depth study of Basic Instinct (1992), one of the earliest mainstream erotic thrillers, Stevie Simkin addresses the controversy around the film's sexual content (particularly the notorious interrogation scene) and its allegedly homophobic and misogynistic depiction of lesbian and female characters.

Straw Dogs ignited fierce debate amongst audiences, critics, and censorship bodies on both sides of the Atlantic on its release in 1971. Stevie Simkin's study sheds light on the film's (mis)fortunes at the BBFC in 1971 and tracks its subsequent tortuous journey towards home video release, including extensive research into Peckinpah's archive.