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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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Matthew Ellis
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June 2025
Celebrity Deathmatch: Trump vs Musk Edition
What can we learn from the Trump/Musk fallout?
Jun 7
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Matthew Ellis
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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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Matthew Ellis
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Star Wars and the Mythopoetics of Late Capitalism: Part 1
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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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Matthew Ellis
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Announcing a new teaching gig: CINEJOURNEYS
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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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Matthew Ellis
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What's going on with these Bernie/AOC rallies?
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The room from Network (1976) is real
Trump's tariffs on pause
Apr 9
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Matthew Ellis
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The room from Network (1976) is real
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Here We Go...
Trump's Tariffs Terrify Thousands and Thousands, or, welp!
Apr 2
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Matthew Ellis
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Here We Go...
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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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Matthew Ellis
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Se7en (David Fincher, 1995)
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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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Matthew Ellis
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Plots Against Late Liberalism
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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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Matthew Ellis
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January 2025
The Meaning of Musk's Nazi Salute
How the right uses History to confuse us even further
Jan 21
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Matthew Ellis
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"The End of the End of History"
In which I begin to toss up some old seminar/conference papers that are unpublishable for a number of reasons but might benefit from being put out into…
Jan 15
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Matthew Ellis
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