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The End of the Beginning
First encounter with post-modernism
Speaking in a native tongue: the fresh perspective of Dallas W. Smythe
Will Work for Work: The Tragic Tale of the Unemployed English Major
Subculture: The Not-So-Unnatural Break
Encoding/Decoding
The Commodity as Spectacle
Pedablech
The Medium, the Message, and the Manipulator
Next stop: (G)RAD SCHOOL!
Hunter S. Thompson commits suicide
Habermas and The Public Sphere
The Culture Industry
Benjamin vs. Film, Round 1
Embarking on Marxism: Exploring other “Engels” in literary theory
Halloween on Thanksgiving
Horror Film: Rewarding Us For Opening Our Eyes
The Pleasures in Looking: Why the Horror Film Satisfies
Calling new perspectives!
Pig's blood for a pig
What makes women so gosh-darn creepy?
Revisiting Women’s Roles in Slasher Films
The Abject in “The Thing”
Evil mothers!
Part II of Creed and male fear
Halloween costume inspiration!
The male gaze and the creation of art
Horror cinema, psychoplasmics?
Making sense of the abject
The womb of doom and "The Brood"
Murderous thoughts
Death of a blog; Birth of its evil twin
Queer Eye for the Cowboy
Theory this, theory that
Open Letter to My Blog #2
A letter to my blog
Hoorah for "bad" Shakespeare!
Film class is taking over my mind!
Beginning to blog!