Kyle Stevens is Associate Professor of Film Studies at Appalachian State University. He is the author of Mike Nichols: Sex, Language, and the Reinvention of Psychological Realism (Oxford University Press), co-editor of the two-volume collection Close-Up: Great Screen Performances (Edinburgh University Press), and editor of the forthcoming The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory. His essays have appeared in Cinema Journal, Critical Quarterly, Film Criticism, World Picture, as well as several edited collections. He is also editor-in-chief of New Review of Film and Television Studies.