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

Celebrity Deathmatch: Trump vs Musk Edition

What can we learn from the Trump/Musk fallout?

Jun 7 • 

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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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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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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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