Kyle Stevens

Biographic Data

ID4194796
NAMEKyle Stevens
GIVEN NAMESKyle
FAMILY NAMEStevens
SIGNATURESTEVENS K
AFFILIATIONSAppalachian State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS0
WORKS AS AUTHOR6
WORKS AS EDITOR1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2010
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2022
H-INDEX0

  • The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory

    Kyle StevensEDITORBOOKThe Oxford Handbook of Film Theory2022

    Despite changes in the media landscape, film remains a vital force in contemporary culture, as do our ideas of what “a movie” or “the cinematic” are. Indeed, we might say that the category of film now only exists in theory. Whereas film-theoretical discussion at the turn of the twenty-first century was preoccupied, understandably, by digital technology’s permeation of virtually all aspects of the film object, this volume moves the conversation aw…

  • The digital human something; or, the case of Miquela

    Open AccessKyle Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLEScreen2022

    The major Hollywood casting agency CAA recently signed a new performer, Miquela, a young woman who identifies as queer and multi-ethnic. She is also digital. Miquela rose to fame as a ‘virtual influencer’, one of several such figures on social media who share their seeming-lives with millions of followers. She makes music, has a biologically human boyfriend, and even takes selfies in moisturizing face masks. Miquela is part of a growing populatio…

  • When Movies Get Sick

    Kyle Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLECritical Inquiry2021

    Previous articleNext article FreeWhen Movies Get SickKyle StevensKyle Stevens Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUSFull Text Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditEmailQR Code SectionsMore25 March 2020Space is never just space. Sometimes we think of it as the air around us. Sometimes we think of it as a thing in which to find a WiFi signal. Sometimes it’s what we ne…

  • Romantic comedy and the virtues of predictability

    Kyle Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLENew Review of Film and Television…2020

    While cinematic narratives are often evaluated and enjoyed in terms of their ability to captivate through suspense and revelation, in this essay, I mount a defense of narrative predictability. I take the genre of romantic comedy, arguably the most critically derided for its formulaic nature, as a case study, arguing that not only are there virtues to predictability but that the negative values that have been attached to it are often masculinist a…

  • The World Heard

    Kyle StevensARTICLEDiscourse2020

  • Mapplethorpe

    Kyle StevensARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    In March 2016, twinned retrospectives of Robert Mapplethorpe's lifework, focused on his photographic output, opened at the Getty Center and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. In Mapplethorpe, Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato use that occasion as an impetus to recount the artist's biography. Those unfamiliar with Mapplethorpe's work will be exposed to a solid overview of the artist and become intimate with his most celebrated images. To its cred…

  • Tossing truths

    Open AccessKyle Stevens, Κ Ν StevensARTICLECritical Quarterly2010

    This paper theorises the style of improvisational comedy innovated by Mike Nichols and Elaine May in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Nichols and May's commentary relies on the listener's willingness to grasp – and to mock – conventions of ordinary language, and I recount the duo's history while examining their affinity to the contemporaneous work of J. L. Austin. Doing so allows me to demonstrate that Nichols and May complicate Austin's class of …