Transactions with the World

Offers a genuinely original critical approach to a well-covered chapter in film history.
A mix of history, theory and critical analysis gives the book a real sense of diversity and variety.
Attends to unusual and overlooked films of the New Hollywood period, as well as canonical mainstays.

Adam O'Brien teaches film studies at the universities of Bristol and Reading. He has published articles on ecocriticism and film in a number of journals, including Film Criticism, Journal of Media Practice, and ISLE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Literature and Environment.