Essays

Film and Literature

• The Desire for Magic (A Streetcar Named Desire)
• The Alleged Mr. Ripley (The Talented Mr. Ripley)
• Introductions of Young Men to Wide Worlds (A.I. and Stand by Me)
• The Hell of Real-Estate and the Heaven of Star-Crossed Lovers (Glengarry Glen Ross and Romeo & Juliet)

Film History

• The Warfare of Montage (Battleship Potemkin)

Major Film Directors

• Is There Space for Aliens in a Film Canon? (Aliens)
• In a Disturbing Place (In a Lonely Place)

Film Genre

• Promises of the Genre (Eastern Promises)
• The Perfect Burden: Eugene’s Plight in Gattaca (Gattaca)
• The Brokeback Mystique (Brokeback Mountain)
• Blades and Guns: The Human Weapons of Science Fiction (Blade Runner/Equilibrium)

Studies in Popular History

• The Untouchable 80’s (The Untouchables)
• The 1980s: America Psychotic (American Psycho)
• The Men of Westerns: Masculine Values Through Films (Various Westerns)

Cinema and Society

• Meta-Textuality and Media Effects in Citizen Kane (Citizen Kane)

Film Theory

• The Tone of a Showdown (The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly)

Intro to Film

• Making Them Laugh Through Mis-En-Scene (Singing in the Rain)
• Masculinity in Movies: Cinematography and Editing in Jaws (Jaws)
• The Auditory Perceptions of God’s Lonely Man: Sound and Narrative (Taxi Driver)

Media Criticism

• My Life as Seen Through Television (Various)
• The Burning Images of Rescue Me (“Rescue Me” )
• My Advertising Sense is Tingling (Spider Man 2)
• Batman vs. The Paradigm (Batman 1989)

Random Essays

• Babylon A.D. Update: This is What Integrity Looks Like (Babylon A.D.)
• Militarized Robotics as Described in the Terminator Films: How Much Longer do We Have Until Robots Take Over?

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