Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023); and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020).

• Introduction: Why Steve McQueen matters - Thomas AustinPart One1. From Exodus to Small Axe: Steve McQueen’s filmic world of two halves - Elisabetta Fabrizi2. Interrogating surplus liveness: Girls, Tricky - James Harvey3. Eye witness: memorialising humanity in Steve McQueen’s Hunger - Eugene McNamee 4. Shame and the City: Subverting neoliberal, New York singleton culture in Shame - Niall Richardson 5. If it is to be done, how: considering a Robeson biopic - Shana Redmond 6. The Slave narrative and filmic aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and colonial violence - Philip Kaisary 7. Working for / working with / working against: Widows and the politics and poetics of genre - Matthias Grotkopp Part Two8. Is Small Axe cinema or television and does it matter? Discourses of authorship and production in the publicity for Small Axe - Christine Geraghty9. Small Axe and / as cinematic television - Hannah Andrews10. Love in a cold climate: Lovers Rock - Thomas Austin11. Dub, ecstasy and collective memory in Lovers Rock - Kwame Philips12. The Burden of expectation: where are the women in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films? - Patricia Francis13. Boy with Flag and Black British experience in Handsworth Songs and Red, White and Blue - Thomas Austin14. Small Axe is a start: an interview with Bernard Coard

This book shines a spotlight on the visual brilliance of Steve McQueen's films. Backed by original research that blends textual analysis with socio-cultural exploration, each chapter offers insights into how McQueen has navigated diverse mediums, aesthetics, and politics. A primary reference point for those interested in the significance of McQueen in contemporary art and culture.

Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023); and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020).

• Introduction: Why Steve McQueen matters - Thomas AustinPart One1. From Exodus to Small Axe: Steve McQueen’s filmic world of two halves - Elisabetta Fabrizi2. Interrogating surplus liveness: Girls, Tricky - James Harvey3. Eye witness: memorialising humanity in Steve McQueen’s Hunger - Eugene McNamee 4. Shame and the City: Subverting neoliberal, New York singleton culture in Shame - Niall Richardson 5. If it is to be done, how: considering a Robeson biopic - Shana Redmond 6. The Slave narrative and filmic aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and colonial violence - Philip Kaisary 7. Working for / working with / working against: Widows and the politics and poetics of genre - Matthias Grotkopp Part Two8. Is Small Axe cinema or television and does it matter? Discourses of authorship and production in the publicity for Small Axe - Christine Geraghty9. Small Axe and / as cinematic television - Hannah Andrews10. Love in a cold climate: Lovers Rock - Thomas Austin11. Dub, ecstasy and collective memory in Lovers Rock - Kwame Philips12. The Burden of expectation: where are the women in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films? - Patricia Francis13. Boy with Flag and Black British experience in Handsworth Songs and Red, White and Blue - Thomas Austin14. Small Axe is a start: an interview with Bernard Coard

This book shines a spotlight on the visual brilliance of Steve McQueen's films. Backed by original research that blends textual analysis with socio-cultural exploration, each chapter offers insights into how McQueen has navigated diverse mediums, aesthetics, and politics. A primary reference point for those interested in the significance of McQueen in contemporary art and culture.

Thomas Austin is Professor of Film Studies at the University of Sussex, UK. He is the editor of ReFocus: The Films of Steve McQueen (2023); and co-editor of Cinema of Crisis: Film and Contemporary Europe (2020).

• Introduction: Why Steve McQueen matters - Thomas AustinPart One1. From Exodus to Small Axe: Steve McQueen’s filmic world of two halves - Elisabetta Fabrizi2. Interrogating surplus liveness: Girls, Tricky - James Harvey3. Eye witness: memorialising humanity in Steve McQueen’s Hunger - Eugene McNamee 4. Shame and the City: Subverting neoliberal, New York singleton culture in Shame - Niall Richardson 5. If it is to be done, how: considering a Robeson biopic - Shana Redmond 6. The Slave narrative and filmic aesthetics: Steve McQueen, Solomon Northup, and colonial violence - Philip Kaisary 7. Working for / working with / working against: Widows and the politics and poetics of genre - Matthias Grotkopp Part Two8. Is Small Axe cinema or television and does it matter? Discourses of authorship and production in the publicity for Small Axe - Christine Geraghty9. Small Axe and / as cinematic television - Hannah Andrews10. Love in a cold climate: Lovers Rock - Thomas Austin11. Dub, ecstasy and collective memory in Lovers Rock - Kwame Philips12. The Burden of expectation: where are the women in Steve McQueen’s Small Axe films? - Patricia Francis13. Boy with Flag and Black British experience in Handsworth Songs and Red, White and Blue - Thomas Austin14. Small Axe is a start: an interview with Bernard Coard

This book shines a spotlight on the visual brilliance of Steve McQueen's films. Backed by original research that blends textual analysis with socio-cultural exploration, each chapter offers insights into how McQueen has navigated diverse mediums, aesthetics, and politics. A primary reference point for those interested in the significance of McQueen in contemporary art and culture.