Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan

Feature One. Narrating Shyamalan, Narrating Culture

1. The Home-Front Hero in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan
Elizabeth Abele

2. Reaching Out to the Other Side
Elizabeth Rosen

3. Melodrama and Male Crisis in Signs and Unbreakable
R. Barton Palmer

4. Spellbound in Darkness
David Sterritt

5. Four Films by M. Night Shyamalan
Katherine A. Fowkes

6. The Night Book, or The Mirror and the Page
Emmanuel Burdeau

7. Making Sense of M. Night Shyamalan
Matt Hills

8. Reshaping the Director as Star
Kim Owczarski

Feature Two. Stories by Shyamalan

9. Sigmund Freud, Pedophile Priests, and Shyamalan’s Filmic Fairy Tale (The Sixth Sense)
Jane F. Thrailkill

10. Unbreak My Heart
Matt Yockey

11. Simulations of Evil in M. Night Shyamalan’s The Village
Miriam Jordan, Julian Jason Haladyn

12. “Something Ancient in modern times”
Nicholas Parker, Nirmal Trivedi

13. What Ever is Happening to M. Night Shyamalan
Murray Pomerance

Keywords: Cultural and Media Studies, Film and Television Studies, Cultural History, Film History, Media Studies, Directing