Books by Antony Easthope

Focusing on the shift in modern literary study to cultural studies, this work argues that this new discipline must find a methodological consensus for its analysis of canonical and popular texts. Through a criticism of competing theories, it shows how this new study should, and should not, be done.

Difference, the key term in deconstruction, has broken free of its rigorous philosophical context in the work of Jacques Derrida, and turned into an excuse for doing theory the easy way.

This judicious selection of key works by Stephen Heath, Fredrick Jameson, Laura Mulvey, Mary Ann Doanne and others, represents some of the most important contemporary writing about film.