Critical Approaches to the Films of M. Night Shyamalan

Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock is Professor of English at Central Michigan University, USA.

Introduction: Telling Stories About Stories: The Films of M. Night Shyamalan - Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock * Feature One: Narrating Shyamalan, Narrating Culture * The Homefront Hero in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan - Elizabeth Abele *  Reaching Out to the Other Side: Problematic Families in the Films of M. Night Shyamalan - Elizabeth Rosen * Melodrama and Male Crisis in Signs and Unbreakable - R. Barton Palmer * Spellbound in Darkness: M. Night Shyamalan and the Epistemological Twitch - David Sterritt * Four Films by M. Night Shyamalan: Oh, the Irony . . . - Katherine A. Fowkes * Intermission: Shyamalan's Story * Making Sense of M. Night Shyamalan: Signs of a Popular Auteur in the "Field of Horror" - Matt Hills * Reshaping the Director as Star: Investigating M. Night Shyamalan's Image - Kim Owczarski * Feature Two: Stories by Shyamalan * Sigmund Freud, Pedophile Priests, and Shyamalan's Filmic Fairy Tale ( The Sixth Sense ) - Jane F. Thrailkill * Unbreak My Heart: The Melodramatic Superhero in Unbreakable - Matthew Yockey * The Simulation of Evil in M. Night Shyamalan's The Village - Miriam Jordan and Julian Jason Haladyn *  "Something Ancient in Modern Times": Myth-Making and Meaninglessness in Lady in the Water - Nicholas Parker and Nirmal Trivedi * Whatever Happened to M. Night Shyamalan: Meditation on an "Infection" Film - Murray Pomerance