
The first edition of Stephen Mulhall's acclaimed On Film was a study of the four Alien films, and made the highly original and controversial argument that films themselves can philosophise. In its second edition, On Film increased its breadth and vision...

First published in 2002. Few movies have captured our imagination as deeply and enduringly as those of the 'Alien' quartet, which follow the odyssey of Sigourney Weaver's Flight Lieutenant Ellen Ripley. In this gripping and limpidly written book, Stephen Mulhall shows why these...


This significantly expanded third edition adds new chapters on the fourth Mission: Impossible movie, Christopher Nolan's Inception, the Bourne Identity films, Ridley Scott's Prometheus, and JJ Abrams' Star Trek and Star Trek: Into Darkness...
