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Essay · Screen & Culture
An exploration of adaptation through the classic films of Hitchcock and Spielberg.
This article argues that the most successful film adaptations, such as ‘Rear Window,’ ‘Jaws,’ and ‘Psycho,’ don’t just copy their literary …
Essay · Screen & Culture
A Study in Functional Analogy
This article proposes a framework of ‘functional analogy’ connecting the cinematic single take with literary techniques such as stream of consciousness, sustained …
Essay · Writing & AI
An interpretive framework for uneven reactions to synthetic creativity
The Proximity Paradox is a proposed lens—not a demonstrated law—for comparing reactions to AI in writing and performance through embodiment, visible substitution, and control.
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A writer’s darling is rarely just a sentence. It can carry labour, aspiration, identity, and a sense of accomplished skill. That helps explain …
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The café writer is always performing to some degree. That does not make the work false. A café becomes useful when its rituals, limits, and ambient …
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Cable made ambitious television a mark of distinction; streaming turned that distinction into a global production system. This essay proposes …
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Narrative begins before writing, but the page changes what narrative can do. By fixing one account long enough to question it, writing can turn the …
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A made world can offer something ordinary escape does not: a bounded system whose rules answer back. Systemic refuge names that possibility, but its …
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Walking may widen the field of possible ideas, but it does not compose finished prose. Its value lies in creating distance from the page before the …