Critical Dialogues

Chapter 4 of Writing About Screen Media – “Entering the Conversation” – begins by explaining that “scholarly writing should advance an...

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Warhol's Screen Tests

For the past several years, I have asked the students in my seminar on stardom to watch a series of Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests (from the...

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Free writing

Chapter 4 of Writing About Screen Media discusses the value of free writing (45-6) – a practice that I incorporate into all of my media...

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Reading the last chapter first

When I was designing the table of contents for Writing About Screen Media, I opted to place Holly Willis’ chapter “Writing across the...

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