Trickster Mickey
"Mickey! Mickey! Tricky Mickey Mouse!”
Field Notes
Before analysis can begin, we must venture out and collect data.
The Mack
Dandyism and flâneurie as radical/misguided street theater.
It Happened One Night
“Awww, I like mushy stuff!”
Eraserhead
Replete with images of loneliness, tedium, and paranoia.
Breaking Away
They have no repertoire of bromantic chest-bumps.
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
Conveying emotional idealism via cluttered, awkward blocking.
Harold and Maude
She is wisdom, love, joy.
Repo Man
Otto will transcend the far too limiting punk-hippie dichotomy.
The Big Sleep
The hardboiled protagonist has developed a sentimentality-proof exoskeleton.
Tender Mercies
A chastened, bewildered, deeply grateful vector of southern-fried redemptive forces.
Future Peril
How to talk to people 10,000 years in the future.
District 9
He’s a prawn trapped in a net.
Goodfellas
They refuse to live like “schnooks.”
Virus X
A meme that has propagated from one pulp genre to another…
The Little Princess
“One soldier more or less doesn’t make any difference, you know.”