Publications

When The Very Thought of You, directed by Nick Hamm from a screenplay by Peter Morgan, was released in Britain…

First westerns, then horror films, now gangster flicks: all the great Hollywood genres have been appropriated by the spoofters and…

Albert Brooks, more than any other Hollywood writer/director, is able to write satirically about Hollywood without at the same time…

Nights of Cabiria by Federico Fellini, recently re-released in a restored version, stars the great director’s wife, Giulietta Massina as…

Outside Providence, adapted from his own novel by Peter Farelly, with his brother, Bobby, and directed by Michael Corrente, is…

As a rule, I think I have as good an eye for “gaggingly mawkish supernatural kitsch” as the next critic,…

There are two perfect, transcendent moments in the Tale of Autumn, or Conte d’Automne, which is the fourth and perhaps…

It used to be almost a cliché: the toughest teacher you had in high school was always the one you…

The 13th Warrior, directed by John McTiernan, is a Hollywoodification of Michael Crichton’s attempt to re- imagine Beowulf in his…

The Thomas Crown Affair, a remake by John McTiernan of the classic of 1968 which starred Steve McQueen, is what…

Liberal Democrats, Congressional Republicans, and Alan Greenspan often disagree with one another. But they have one thing in common; all…

For two centuries theorists of "secularization" have been saying that religion must inevitably decline in the modern world. But much of the world today is as religious as ever. This volume challenges the belief that the modern world is increasingly secular; showing that while modernization does have secularizing effects, it also provokes a reaction that more often strengthens religion. Seven expert social observers examine several geopolitical regions and several religions–Catholic and Protestant Christianity, Judaism, Buddhism, Islam–and explore the resurgence of religion in world affairs.