French Cinema and the Aesthetic Problem of the 1950s before New Wave: What Was Realism?
Here is my first full entry in my long-gestating French New Wave project. I am not a film history expert, so I am learning as I write. But I do know some...
The Hazards of Writing While Academic
I have begun my first real writing project on this platform: a set of essays going through French New Wave films year by year. I don’t have any particular...
DC, City of Despair
I am working on my French New Wave project and trying to come up with an approach to my first more detailed discussion of specific films. I have a lot of...
Organizing my French New Wave Writing Project. What was French New Wave? What was Auteur theory?
My French New Wave project is developing as I watch more films and begin to dive into reading. I’ve decided to, once again, use my notetaking in Letterboxd...
Feeling the End/French New Wave Project
My semester is going better than expected. I’m responding to the crisis of widespread LLM adoption and the loss of my ability to assess whether student...
January Film Diary
RIP David Lynch, here's what I've been watching
Living the Loneliness Epidemic
There has been a lot of recent writing about how something called “self-imposed loneliness” has overtaken American life since the pandemic. (See, for...
Happy New Year: life updates and some favorites
The holidays have been busy, but I wanted to share some life updates and some of my favorite books, movies, and music of the last year.First of all, I’m...
Late Fall, Early Winter Watching and Reading
With the semester over, I’m hoping to get back to developing this newsletter with more consistent posts. I have been both busy and struggling with motivation...
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Teaching Brecht
It has been a while since I’ve done a general reading/writing/teaching update post, so this was meant to be one of those, but I wound up talking about the...
Jameson.
I’m sorry for the posting break, I can’t seem to find a rhythm this semester. I came down with a rough cold and although I’ve been back from the worst of it...
On Track
The semester is finally on track after an extensive comedy of errors finding classroom space. It took four weeks, an even more ridiculous fall start than...
Debate and Stress
I’m having a stressful week between a logistical thing at work (unsure if university administrators still understand that we need physical spaces to teach),...
Teaching Classics, Watching Anime
This (second post) is coming a bit later than I planned. My knee surgery was healing well, and then I had—not a complication, everything is medically normal...
(Not the) First Day of Class
Today is not the first day of school for the Fall semester, but it is my first day teaching on campus.School started last week, but I was hung up with knee...