Dana

His keen grasp of human nature and a unique style of verse made Ogden Nash, in the mid-twentieth century, the most widely read and frequently quoted poet of his time. For years, re...

Pulp Fiction was one of the films that defined American cinema of the 1990s, and remains one of the stand-out movies of its director Quentin Tarantino. Tarantino’s style - violent,...

With the phenomenal success of 'The Piano' (1993), Jane Campion became revered by many as the leading female film director of the 1990s. In this book, Dana Polan examines the pheno...

Dana Polan is Professor in the Critical Studies programme of the School of Cinema-TV at the University of Southern California, USA. Among his books are Power and Paranoia: History,...