Engaging Film Criticism

The Author: Walter Metz is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Theatre Arts at Montana State University-Bozeman, where he teaches the history, theory, and criticism of film, theatre, and television. He is the author of numerous book chapters and professional journal articles which focus on intertextual approaches to film adaptation, genre, and authorship.

«Metz deserves a Film Studies Oscar for opening up ‘film criticism’ to historical, cultural and theoretical interconnections as he offers new insights into the intertextual analysis of recent American cinema from ‘Die Another Day’ and ‘True Lies’ to ‘The Hudsucker Proxy’, ‘Sling Blade’ and many others.» (Andrew Horton, Jeanne H Smith Professor of Film & Video Studies, University of Oklahoma)«In describing good criticism, Roland Barthes has said that it is criticism that one would have wished to have written. Walter Metz’s comparative analyses of 1990s American cinema are that for me. Every page of this book provides a valuable surprise. Metz is one of the most sophisticated but reasonable practicing critics writing today.» (Janet Staiger, William P. Hobby Centennial Professor in Communication, University of Texas at Austin)