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• Beginnings and Endings
  – July 14, 2016

  A heavily abridged version of my master's thesis, a discussion of the nature of narrative and of aesthetic narrative. It's two, primary, creative texts are not literary, but are the films The Truman Show and Blade Runner.

• Crash Davis vs. the Zombies (Review: Poetry Magazine (Oct. 2015) – Part IX)
  – posted to the PDC blog April 15, 2016
  – added to the Cabinet May 25, 2016

  Closing essay to the nine part series: a mostly free standing essay on the discourse on literature and its state in contemporary literary and poetry culture. Also: expertise, democracy, the vote, and zombie films.

• The Emergence of the Occult from within the Culture of the Occult, or, When a Vampire is Just Trying to Get Laid
  – Sept. 30, 2014

  Aesthetic exploration of eroticism through three Hammer films: Lust for a Vampire, The Vampire Lovers, and Twins of Evil.

• The Mythic Energies of von Trier's Antichrist
  – June 23, 2013

  An attempt not to give a reading of the film, but to demonstrate how the film works not at a literal but at a mythic level, and to describe the primary mythical energies at play.

• An Object Lesson in Brilliance
  – posted to the PDC blog June 9, 2013
  – added May 25, 2016

  Looking at one moment in Frozen's "Let it Go" as an object lesson in attention to detail.

• Reviews

  General reviews found on the Reviews page.

• Shining Books
  – February 26, 2015

  An exploration of the use of books as visual effects in The Shining.

• Steve McQueen's 12 Years a Slave: a Review
  – October 21, 2014

  A one-half star review of a film that is really nothing more than glorified torture porn.

• Visual Labyrinths in Body Double
  – March 16, 2016

  An exploration of the development of sophisticated, symbolic ideation through only visual means.

• Windows in Salò
  – November 15, 2013

  A brief note on the three scenes that involves windows; and the three positions between the individual and state power.