Collection: Ivan Butler

Ivan Butler (1909–1994, United Kingdom) was a British film critic and historian whose monographs for the International Film Guide Series and other publishers contributed to the critical reception of European and international cinema in the 1960s and 1970s. His studies include volumes on Roman Polanski, the horror film and the cinema of war. Butler’s writing is characterised by close attention to individual films and a concern with the relationship between a director’s biography and their work, situating him within the tradition of auteur criticism that dominated Anglo-American film writing of the period.