Stephen Lee Naish

Stephen Lee Naish is the author of six books of non-fiction, notably, Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper (AUP), Riffs and Meaning (HeadPress), and Screen Captures: Film in the Age of Emergency (Newstar Books).

Kingston, Canada

Books

Book cover of Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis Hopper by Stephen Lee Naish

Music and Sound in the Films of Dennis HopperAcross his directorial films, American filmmaker Dennis Hopper used music and sound to propel the narrative of his films. 2024

Book cover of Riffs & Meaning Manic Street Preachers and Know Your Enemy by Stephen Lee Naish

Riffs & Meaning Manic Street Preachers and Know Your EnemyA critical analysis of the career of the Manic Street Preachers and their 2001 record Know Your Enemy.Headpress Books

Book cover of Deconstructing Dirty Dancing by Stephen Lee Naish

Deconstructing Dirty DancingThe film is a union of history, politics, sixties and eighties culture, era-defining music, class, gender, and race.Zero Books

Book cover of Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper by Stephen Lee Naish

Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis HopperThe first major work to take in Hopper as a creative artist in all his fields. Amsterdam University Press

Chapbooks

Book cover of CAP!TOLiZM by Stephen Lee Naish

CAP!TOLiZMA bonus poetry chapbook companion that can be downloaded with the album CAP!TOL!ZM by Cities in Snow2024

Selected work (10 publications)

Crying at robots: emotional responses to artificial intelligenceSob!

Big Trouble In Big China: Ghost Cities Of China ReviewedA look at Wade Shepard's economic, social and — most importantly — human examination of China's pre-abandoned megacities

The Congress and the Slow Dissolve of Reality

Candid Magazine

Hip Hopp: Dennis Hopper, Protest, and Popular MusicThis is an edited excerpt from Create or Die: Essays on the Artistry of Dennis Hopper,

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Links

Americana Film Studies: Interview with Stephen Lee Naish. By Lydia PlantamuraInterview conducted by Lydia Plantamura (2017)