Alberto Morsiani is a film consultant and contributor to magazines and newspapers. As a critic and essayist, he mainly deals with American cinema from the point of view of the study of founding mythologies and cultural archetypes, classic genres and the most significant authors. He has written books on, among others, John Ford, Quentin Tarantino, Anthony Mann, Oliver Stone, Gus Van Sant, Joseph Mankiewicz, Kathryn Bigelow, Jacques Tourneur, Don Siegel, Peter Weir, the western, the road movie, the motorbike on the screen, and landscape in Hollywood cinema.