Film and TV

Valentine's Day with Sam Dinerstein

“I just thought, like, what would be one day where people would all go out together, and get into some antics?” The answer is Valentine’s...

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...