In a Simple Rhyme is a collection of poetry written over the course of the 1990s. The poetry covers the thoughts, emotions, and observations of John Orr. This book of poetry is his first book publication.

John Orr looks at the work, influences, legacy and style of perhaps cinema's most famous director, Alfred Hitchcock.

This book discusses the complex relation between modernity and cinema drawing particularly upon the European and American cinema during the second half of the twentieth century.

This book contends that he should be put at the very center of European film history by chronologically comparing Bergman’s relationship to key European directors such as Carl Theodor Dreyer, Jean-Luc Godard, Michelangelo Antonioni, and ...

A study that examines the relationship between tragic drama of the late 19th and 20th centuries and present-day society.