I have two new courses at Cinejourneys you should take!

Weimar Cinema begins Nov 11 and runs over Zoom for four consecutive Tuesday evenings (skipping Thanksgiving week), and France in the 1960s does the same…

Oct 23 • 

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September 2025

Tangerine (Sean Baker, 2015)

And a quick update

Sep 10 • 

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July 2025

7.25 - Some Updates, TAKE MY CLASS!

I spent last week down in Los Angeles for a conference, and finished my first Cinejourneys course at the same time. You should sign up for the second!

Jul 25 • 

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7.1.25: An Update

Some Shit That's Been Going On In My Life

Jul 1 • 

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June 2025

Star Wars and the Mythopoetics of Late Capitalism: Part 1

The first entry in a multi-part series looking at the relationship between the rise of multimedia franchise storytelling and American capitalism's…

Jun 2 • 

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April 2025

Announcing a new teaching gig: CINEJOURNEYS

I've teamed up with the folks at cinejourneys.com to offer some online film studies courses that YOU can take for a very affordable fee.

Apr 24 • 

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What's going on with these Bernie/AOC rallies?

Bernie and AOC are staging rallies that draw tens of thousands of people in red areas; how will what emerges avoid the pitfalls of what led us to this…

Apr 15 • 

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The room from Network (1976) is real

Trump's tariffs on pause

Apr 9 • 

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Here We Go...

Trump's Tariffs Terrify Thousands and Thousands, or, welp!

Apr 2 • 

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March 2025

Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)

A warning from the high, End of History 90s

Mar 10 • 

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February 2025

Plots Against Late Liberalism

In my teaching I have found myself spending much more time than expected on demystifying the ins and outs of the Hollywood continuity system, and…

Feb 28 • 

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New Podcast Series: Digital Frontiers

The first in a series on digital cinema between 1998-2011 that should take us through August

Feb 12 • 

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