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Dec 2025Sketch Comedy and the Deconstructive Work of DialogismEssayDec 2025Against Spectacle: Duration & Anti-Pleasure in Structural FilmEssayDec 2025Beyond the Solo: Apparatus, Ethics, and Undoing Individualist Mythology in ‘Free Solo’EssayNov 2025Adaptation & Transnational Remediation: Remix in ‘Bride & Prejudice’EssayOct 2025Erotic Power: “Scorpio Rising” and the Spectacle of ImpurityEssayOct 2025Sketch Comedy, Bakhtin, and HypertextualityShort ArticleMay 2025Reassessing Noir in ‘Mona Lisa’: Race, Masculinity, and Noir’s Affective TurnEssayApr 2025Susanne Langer’s Theory of Art — Form Out of Emotion: ‘Under the Skin’ (2013) and “Semblance”EssayMar 2025Contextualizing Kant’s Concept of Genius & Aesthetic IdeasEssayDec 2024Subverting Genre: The Coen Brothers, Film Noir, and Genre TheoryEssayDec 2024Diegesis and Perception: Narrative Uncertainty in ‘Inside Llewyn Davis’ (2013)EssayMay 2024‘Suspiria’ (1977) — Color and SpaceShort ArticleMay 2024Lost Moments: Nostalgia, Physical Media, and the PastEssayMarch 2024The Legacies of Jazz Musicians on Film + Jazz, Gender, and IdentityEssayMarch 2024David Fincher - “It Won't Be Cinematic”EssayJanuary 2024What/Why Horror?EssayDecember 2023Film Theory Thesis: Post-Human Relationships in FilmEssayDecember 2023Representations of Rebellion and Youth in the ‘banlieue’EssayDecember 2023Cognitive Film Theory -- A Bordwell-ian Analysis of ‘Banshees of Inisherin’Short ArticleOctober 2023Formalism/Realism Debates -- Fantasy-Adventure Films in the Modern AgeShort ArticleOctober 2023‘A New Ciniphilia’: Girish Shambu and the Need for Fresh DiscourseShort ArticleMay 2023Is it TV or Social Media?EssayMarch 2023Guy Ritchie and the Impact of the French New WaveEssayDecember 2022First Reformed: Contextual AnalysisEssay