Film Criticism

From Rebecca to The Crown: The Modern Gothic

December 2020 — an essay examining season four of The Crown through the lens of Daphne du Maurier’s novel Rebecca and its 2020 film adaptation. Read it here.

Fall 2019 — I spent a lot of years feeling very disappointed about how the movie La La Land turned out. Eventually, I made a presentation about it. Click here to watch me give this presentation, or click here to follow along by reading the presentation itself.

La La Land Powerpoint

Arty Shorts

Horror Film History Course

Spring 2017, Spring 2018 — As part of Oberlin’s student-taught Experimental College program, I designed and taught a 12-week course on the history of horror cinema. Topics included the monstrous feminine, zombies, J-horror, giallo, and political horror. Read my full syllabus for 2018 here.