In Progress

Shooting Script: Poetry, Film, and Form

My book project Shooting Script uses a collaborative formalist method to examine the enmeshed forms and theoretical investments of hyper-contemporary narrative film and poetry. In the process of analysis, Shooting Script addresses questions of ethics, feminism, affect, and environmentalism. Shooting Script argues that contemporary narrative cinema and poetry are overlooked sister arts, connected by their shared theoretical investments in voice, genre, temporality, boundedness, and challenges to a white masculinized modernism. Shooting Script also contends that the simultaneous streaming release of many of these poetry-savvy narrative films constitutes a medium-agnostic “platformalism” that challenges the entrenched concept of form as medium-specific. Films and poets examined in Shooting Script include I’m Thinking of Ending Things (dir. Charlie Kaufman, 2020), Nomadland (dir. Chloé Zhao, 2021), The Kindergarten Teacher (dir. Sara Colangelo, 2018), Paterson (dir. Jim Jarmusch, 2016), and poetry by Ocean Vuong, Dorothea Lasky, Frank Bidart, Eva H.D., and Srikanth Reddy.

“Filming the Elegy: Elegiac Horror in David Lowery’s A Ghost Story”

(Forthcoming in Literature and Film Quarterly)

“The Medium Close Poetics of C.D. Wright’s One Big Self: An Investigation.”

C.D. Wright in Context Cluster. Edited by Alicia Wright. Contemporaries at Post45.

Abstract accepted, Manuscript in preparation

“Both in and out of the game, and watching and wondering at it:” Whitmanic Currents and Complications in He Got Game and “I, Too.”

Next Generation Adaptation. Edited by Allen Redmon. The University Press of Mississippi. 90-107.

Review of Talking Trash: Cultural Uses of Waste by Maite Zubiaurre.

E3W Review of Books. Infrastructure in the Aftermath of Colonialism. Vol. 20. Spring 2020.