If you are a director who has taken out an ad in Variety slamming a film bearing your name as director (American History X) and sued the Director’s Guild of America after it denied you …

Originally delivered as an address to the Midwest Conference on Language, Literature and Media (MCLLM) in DeKalb, Illinois. 2 April 2005.

The main reason I’m posting about the show, however, is that noted scholar and Buffy enthusiast Elizabeth Rambo has begun a blog project rewatching the show and blogging individual episodes at The Painful Nowning Process. Dr. Rambo is one of the co-editors of Buffy Goes Dark, and she brings a broad foundation of literary knowledge and cultural insight into her writing. If you’ve ever wanted to try out the show or think more deeply about quality television, consider this a master class with an individual tutor and–here’s the best part–no tuition!

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The 4:00 p.m. Sunday matinee of Julie & Julia was the most crowded non-festival theater screening I’ve seen since probably The Dark Knight. Add to that the fact that the four ticket buyers immediately in …

Perhaps no archetype is more prevalently insidious in Western art and criticism than that of the diminishing star–the poet, artist, athlete, or performer who dazzles us and youth but gradually becomes a shadow of his …