Brad Stevens (writer)

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Brad Stevens is a British film critic and novelist living in the United Kingdom. He has written four books on cinema and contributes to international film magazines. His first book, Monte Hellman: His Life and Films (2003), was praised for its humane view of Hellman’s work, and his second, Abel Ferrara: The Moral Vision (2004), followed. Stevens writes for Sight & Sound, with a monthly Bradlands column online, and has contributed to Cahiers du Cinéma, Video Watchdog, CineAction, The Dark Side, The Movie Book of the Western, The International Film Guide (2008), Senses of Cinema, and Defining Moments in Movies. He has worked on DVD and Blu-ray releases, providing commentaries for Nosferatu and Tabu, and, with Abel Ferrara, on The Driller Killer and The Addiction, plus sleeve notes for many titles. Stevens has appeared in documentaries and interviewed Christopher Lee for The City of the Dead DVD. He co-authored English subtitles for F. J. Ossang’s Dharma Guns (2010) and served on the jury at the 2007 Oldenburg International Film Festival. An advocate of auteur theory, his work has drawn both praise and criticism. Critics have called him influential in modern film research. He also wrote a feminist dystopian novel, The Hunt (2014), described as The Hunger Games meets Fifty Shades of Grey; a sequel, A Caution to Rattlesnakes, followed the same year. The Hunt was reissued in 2018.