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The Art of Dying Beautifully: Luchino Visconti's The Leopard
The Web of Moral Vision: Middlemarch as an Education in Seeing
A Cinema That Thinks: Jean-Luc Godard's Contempt
The Broken Clocks of Yoknapatawpha: William Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury
The Ethos of Cruelty: Antichrist's Theology of Pain
A Chorus of the Damned: Fernanda Melchor and the New Mexican Gothic
Breakfast at Thornfield: The Couture Gothic of Phantom Thread
Quilts and Fragments: Margret Atwood's Alias Grace
California in Syndication: Pynchon, Postmodernism, and the Age of Reagan
Craft Without Compulsion: Paul Thomas Anderson's One Battle After Another
Faithful Unto Exile: Conrad’s Lord Jim and the Fragments of Empire
Through the Zone: Time, Faith, and the Unknowable in Tarkovsky’s Stalker
Extinction as Style: Anna Kavan’s Ice
Between Grief and Forgetting: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Love Worth Having, Grief Worth More: Faulkner's The Wild Palms
Beware the Preacher: Gothic Fables and the Moral Eye of the Child
The Image That Remembers: Until the End of the World and the Terror of Perfect Memory
Ghostwriting the Self: Authorship as Self-Erasure in The Social Network
Against the Feed: Joshua Cohen's Book of Numbers
"Grace or Delusion?": Transcendental Reckoning in Schrader and Oates
Martyrdom Without Meaning: Joyce Carol Oates and the Author as Political Agent
History, Repression, and the Circular Novel in Thuận’s Elevator in Sài Gòn
Dreaming with Open Eyes: Uncle Boonmee and the Cinema of Impermanence
A New Prometheus: Creation, Abandonment, and the Soul in Blade Runner
The Monster and the Mirror: Mary Shelley's Ethics of Creation
The Man at the Threshold: The Searchers and the Rot of Myth
Synthetic Soul: Bong Joon-Ho’s Mickey 17 and Modern Hollywood's Factory Settings
William T. Vollmann's Europe Central and the Limits of Maximalism
Citizen Kane and the Burden of Greatness
Hamlet and Shakespeare's Theatre of Endurance
Drawing Rooms and Dismantling Forms: Altman After Austen
Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice and the Rise of the Modern Novel
Reading Memento: Time, Structure, and Mind
Post-Human Longing: Michel Houellbecq's The Possibility of an Island
Fatal Aesthetics: Mishima and Paul Schrader's Cinema of Obsession
Suicide as Style: The Life and Death of Harry Crosby
Waiting for History: The Magic Mountain in an Age of Crisis
Mountains of Meaning: Ascent and Transcendence in Ikiru
Blonde and the Violence of Hollywood Mythmaking
“We Had Faces”: The Madness of Sunset Boulevard
Burnout and Neon Nihilism: Han’s Modern Subject in the Films of Gregg Araki
The Prophet of Burnout: On the Remedies of Byung-Chul Han