Writing

2007

The Importance of the Sublime in the Romantic Aesthetic

2006

From Austen to Bollywood: Adapting Tradition in Gurinder Chadha’s Bride and Prejudice
John Boorman’s Multi-Sourced Excalibur
Poetry Explication - “Frost at Midnight” by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Book Review - Howards End: E.M. Forster’s House of Fiction by Alistair Duckworth
Book Review - Early Modern English Drama

2003

There’s a Star-Spangled Banner Waving Somewhere Over Hollywood

2002

Sam Mendes, Auteur?
“The Play’s the Thing”: The Use of Theatre in Shakespeare
King Arthur: The Enduring Myth
The Collapse of France in WWII

2001

A Remembrance of Early Film

Jandy’s Meanderings

the cutting room floor of memory

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