Essay · Writing & Authorship
The Sentence on Foot
What walking can—and cannot—give a writer
A source-audited essay separating walking’s effect on idea generation from the slower work of selecting, shaping, and revising prose.
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Translation, Not Replication
An exploration of adaptation through the classic films of Hitchcock and Spielberg.
An analysis of how classic films like Rear Window, Jaws, and Psycho translate literary nuance into cinematic language, rather than simply replicating their source material.
Essay · Screen & Culture
Literary Single Take
A study in functional analogy
A comparative narratological analysis of literary techniques that function as analogues to the cinematic single take, exploring how authors like Woolf, Cusk, and Ellmann achieve effects of continuous immersion.
Essay · Screen & Culture
The Lupin Gambit
How Netflix turns a reader of Arsène Lupin into its modern gentleman thief
A close analysis of how Netflix’s Lupin places Maurice Leblanc’s stories inside its plot, allowing Assane Diop to inherit, revise, and question the gentleman-thief role.
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The Red Room’s Long Shadow
A close reading of doubled identity, interrupted rescue, and a cliffhanger built for another season.
A source-audited close reading of the Twin Peaks Season 2 finale, its production context, its unresolved ending, and its place in television history.
Essay · Screen & Culture
The Twilight Zone: Moral Imagination
How isolation and paranoia turn speculative premises into ethical questions
A close reading of “Time Enough at Last” and “The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street” as two different moral thought experiments in early television.
Essay · Writing & AI
The Proximity Paradox
An interpretive framework for uneven reactions to synthetic creativity
An interpretive essay asking why some uses of generative AI in writing are framed as assistance while digital replicas in acting provoke sharper labour and identity concerns.
Essay · Screen & Culture
Genre as Barometer
How crime films stage the limits of shared fictions
This essay reads selected American crime films as changing dramatic treatments of distrust, from the Depression-era gangster film to post-Watergate paranoia and subjective urban alienation.
Essay · Screen & Culture
The Trojan Horse of Laughter
What five films reveal about class, gender, work, and Code-era negotiation
A source-audited close reading of social criticism and censorship history in five comedies associated with Hecht, Sturges, and Wilder.