Stephen Prince (1) (1955–)

Author of The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa

For other authors named Stephen Prince, see the disambiguation page.

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About the Author

Stephen Prince is a professor at Virginia Tech. He has written or edited numerous books, including Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 19301968; The Horror Film; and American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations, all published by Rutgers University show more Press. show less

Image credit: http://filebox.vt.edu/users/sprince/bio.htm

Works by Stephen Prince

Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film (1996) 72 copies

A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 (1999) 31 copies

American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations (Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema) (2007) 26 copies

Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930-1968 (2003) 24 copies

Screening Violence (Depth of Film Series) (2000) 17 copies

The Horror Film (Rutgers Depth of Field Series) (2004) 16 copies

Movies and Meaning (6th Edition) (2012) 15 copies

Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch (1998) 12 copies

Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies (1998) 11 copies

Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism (2009) 10 copies

A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki (2017) 10 copies

Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality (2012) 3 copies

Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Film (Praeger Series in Political Communication) (1992) 2 copies

Exam Copy for Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film, 5th Edition (2010) 2 copies

Digital Cinema (Quick Takes: Movies and Popular Culture) (2019) 2 copies

Screening Violence 1 1 copy

Art Direction and Production Design (Behind the Silver Screen Series) 1 copy

History of the American Cinema Book 10 1 copy

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Common Knowledge

Birthdate: 1955-09-13
Gender: male
Education: University of Pennsylvania (PhD)
Occupations: scholar of cinema studies
university professor
Organizations: Virginia Tech University
Short biography: Stephen Prince has taught film history, criticism, and theory at Virginia Tech for 20 years. His research and publications focus on violence in motion pictures, on Japanese director Akira Kurosawa and Japanese cinema, on the American film industry, on American film during the 1980s, and on political cinema.