Journal Publications/Academic Essays:
“Allegorical Figurations and the Political Didactic in Bulworth,” Cineaction, 2004 (Issue 65) (Full piece upon request)
“‘Inside Doesn’t Matter’: Consumerism’s Serial Annihilation of Women and the Self in American Psycho,” Fast Capitalism, 2016 (Issue 13.1)
“The Cognitive Mapping of Phallocentrism, Patriarchy, and Hypermasculinity in Dr. Strangelove, Full Metal Jacket, and Fight Club,” Your Film Professor, June 25, 2018
Soon to be Published Academic Work:
“Snowpiercer’s Cognitive Map of (Transnational, Globalized) Capitalism and Its Impetus to Reboot History”
“(Re) Finding a Working Class Aesthetic: Rocking the Cradle of Power Then and Now in Cradle Will Rock”
Waking the Masses: How Political-Didactic (Narrative) Films Cognitively Map Toxic Ideologies and Actualize the Self (tentative title; developing dissertation for book publication)
Selected Blog Publications:
“Brokeback Mountain: Radically Deconstructing (Self) Destructive Ideologies,” Your Film Professor, June 7, 2018
“Are You a Ghost or a Spirit?” Your Film Professor, July 3, 2018
“Remakes/Reboots/Sequels That Need to Happen: Lost Horizon; Or: What Happened to Utopia?” Your Film Professor, March 12, 2018
“What Maisie Knew: Experiencing Dysfunction Through the Eyes of a Child,” Your Film Professor, February 27, 2018
“Star Trek: The Death of a Progressive Vision,” Your Film Professor, January 1, 2018
“Stranger Things: Our Way Out of the Heart of Darkness,” Your Film Professor, December 19, 2017
“The Bling Ring: Consumerism is a Killing of the Self,” Your Film Professor, November 30, 2017
“Reality, A Mapping of Our Reality Constructions,” Your Film Professor, October 7, 2017
“Ranking Stanley Kubrick,” Your Film Professor, June 19, 2017
“Blue is the Warmest Color: Exploring the Intertextual Layers of Meaning,” Your Film Professor, April 24th, 2017
“Disconnect’s Reconnect: Revealing How Ideologies and Technologies are Disconnecting (Dehumanizing) Us,” Your Film Professor, January 13, 2017
“Captain Fantastic: Human Potential Realized!” Your Film Professor, December 28, 2016
“Arrival’s Utopian and Dystopian Elements,” Your Film Professor, December 26, 2016
“It’s a Wonderful Life’s Utopian Vision of Humanity,” Your Film Professor, December 16, 2016
“The Hunt: Predatory Masculinity and Other Symbolic Elements,” Your Film Professor, December 8, 2016
“American Outrage: Two American Outrages That Reflect Historical Violations,” Your Film Professor, December 3, 2016
“In the Fog: The Degradation of Humanity,” Your Film Professor, November 26, 2016
“Philomena: Exposing Hidden Sins,” Your Film Professor, November 19, 2016
“Iron Jawed Angels: Lessons from an Empowering (Feminist) Movement,” Your Film Professor, November 11, 2016
“Bulworth Prefigures the Rise of Trump,” Your Film Professor, November 6, 2016
Blasting News Publications:
“What Quentin Tarantino and Roy Moore Supporters Have in Common,” Blasting News, November 11, 2017
“Why We Still Don’t Have a Great Thor Movie,” Blasting News, November 8, 2017
“The Rising Up of Voices Against Sexual Predation,” Blasting News, November 5, 2017
“Ashley Judd’s Remarkable Comments About Harvey Weinstein,” Blasting News, November 3, 2017
Newspaper/Editorial Publications:
“Young Men and Violence,” editorial, The Oregonian, 2009
“The Counter-productive Side to Charity,” editorial, The Oregonian, 2009
“Is Clayton Lockett’s ‘Botched’ Execution a Turning Point in Rescinding Capital Punishment?” editorial, All MediaNY 2014
Review Essays:
“Rethinking the Viability of Popular Culture as Oppositional Culture,” book review, Politics and Culture: An International Review of Books, 2004
“A Radical Pedagogy: Locating the Democratic in Popular Cinema,” review essay, Politics and Culture: An International Review of Books, 2002