Screen Captures
Book • 2021
Stephen Lee Naish's Screen Captures explores recent cinematic phenomena and how films reflect contemporary political and social anxieties.
The book is a collection of essays linking blockbusters, indie films, and genre cinema to broader emergencies like neoliberal capitalism, climate catastrophe, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Naish analyzes franchises (including Star Wars and superhero films), masculinity on screen, and disaster movies, using personal reflections and cultural criticism to illuminate shifting audience-studio dynamics.
Written during the pandemic and updated from earlier pieces, the collection argues for cinema's role in interpreting societal dissatisfaction and for renewed attention to smaller, regionally rooted filmmaking.
It situates film both as entertainment and as a lens on collective experience in times of crisis.
The book is a collection of essays linking blockbusters, indie films, and genre cinema to broader emergencies like neoliberal capitalism, climate catastrophe, and the COVID-19 pandemic.
Naish analyzes franchises (including Star Wars and superhero films), masculinity on screen, and disaster movies, using personal reflections and cultural criticism to illuminate shifting audience-studio dynamics.
Written during the pandemic and updated from earlier pieces, the collection argues for cinema's role in interpreting societal dissatisfaction and for renewed attention to smaller, regionally rooted filmmaking.
It situates film both as entertainment and as a lens on collective experience in times of crisis.
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Stephen Lee Naish, "Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency" (Lever Press, 2026)
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