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)
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)
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 Advertising Sense is Tingling
- 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?
