film and tv

Playing with Death (I Died While Playing): Absurdity, Documentary Ethic, and Mythologization

Mockumentaries and play! Case studies based on A Necessary Death (2008) and post-modern denizen Kathy Acker.

SEE THRU U I’M SEE THRU: Crystalline Machines and PS2 Dreams

"I don't believe in Time," -Kanye West

What Did You Just Call Me?!? The Cruel Optimism of Black Panther (2018)

Black lives don't matter in the way loving images of Blackness portray.

LLCU, USA: The Lindsay Lohan Cinematic Universe and Teen Girl Cults

That girl was a one attempt teenage drama queen, a hacked up every day wannabe, but she'll have changed her destiny, now she's a somebody...

The BIG Big Lebowski: Sticky, Tricky Taste

An essay I wrote for my Cult and Exploitation class about the iconic, overly-pathologized Dude.

I SEE, I PROJECT, I PATHOLOGIZE: Visual Language and Fascist Aesthetics

Exhume Lars Von Trier's movies its really fun I promise! 1st essay for my Documentary Tradition class.

Evolution is Impossible, and Racist – An Analysis of Ghost in the Shell (1995/2017)

This essay is from my 3rd film theory essay assigned in my Cinema Media Historiography class, based on parsing out possible/impossible probl

On: Girls - Excerpts from Shower Thoughts

I was 13, and it was raining outside. Recently concussed, I had taken to certain hobbies, such as the art of the binge watch. Being able...