Despite the Genocide: Deconstructed Masculinity and Thanos Fandom

Critiquing Thanos and the limits of deconstruction.

Unfreezing the Past: The MCU’s Captain America and Traumatic Reenactment

Re-considering the arc of Captain America through the lens of trauma in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Colonial Hottie: Gal Gadot, Wonder Woman and Brand Israel

A crucial interrogation of how Gal Gadot’s Israeli identity and IDF experience are used to sell her authenticity in the role of Wonder Woman.

“Guns in the Valley” – a Review of Logan

Logan, the best there is at what he does, and what he does is care.

Robocop: Representation By Erasure & The White-Washing of Detroit.

For a movie set in Detroit, it seems awful white.

Captain America: The Winter Soldier as Liberal Fantasy – A Review

Captain America: The Winter Soldier is part of the ideological state apparatus

“Movies, Museums and the Hall of Fame” – Beat Street & the Past Future of Hip Hop

Hip Hop got up big time, and I love that, but its focus on cultural production left its political potential untapped.

“Once Upon a Time Not Long Ago”

Hip Hop: Unbound from the Underground

Interpreting Tommy

It’s Oedipal.

Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter – Revising Historical Horror into Bubblegum Horror

Evil by degrees.

Heaven is a place where nothing ever happens (that isn’t rehearsed)

The Talking Heads simultaneously demystifying and mystifying.