Publications:
- Forthcoming
- Paul Thomas Anderson. Book. University of Illinois Press Contemporary Directors Series, 2016.
- An essay on screenwriter Joseph Minion (After Hours, Vampire's Kiss) in Lost Souls of Horror and the Gothic, edited by Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice M. Murphy, McFarland, 2016.
- "Prospero Unbound: John Barrymore's Theatrical Transformations of Cinema Reality" in Hamlet Goes to Hollywood, a collection of essays on Barrymore's film work, edited by Steve Rybin and Murray Pomerance, Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
- "Montgomery Clift's Magnetic Passivity in George Stevens's A Place in the Sun" in Great Performances in American Cinema, Edinburgh University Press, 2017
- "Shades of Green Mourning in John M. Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven", International Journal of Film and Television, editor Kyle Stevens. Special issue on Film Color, 2017
- "Intoxicating Stagecraft: Billy Wilder's The Lost Weekend and the Mysteries of Theatre in Film", Movie journal, 2017.
- "Miscast for Death: The Inconsequential End of Gene Lockhart in Red Light", under consideration.
- Books
- A House Made of Light: Essays on the Art of Film. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2001. 350 pages. Hardcover and paperback.
- Books about Guy Maddin (with discussions of my screenplays for his films)
- William Beard, Into the Past: The Cinema of Guy Maddin. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
- Darren Wershler, My Winnipeg. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
- D.K. Holm, Guy Maddin Interviews. University Press of Mississippi, 2010.
- Guy Maddin's My Winnipeg. Toronto: Coach House Press, 2009. Including full screenplay, as well as the deleted scenes that I wrote and extensive commentary by the director, interviewer Michael Ondaatje, and other writers.
- Kuba Mikurda and Michal Oleszczyk, Kino Wykolejone Rozmowy Z Guyem Maddinem, a monograph by two Polish film scholars on Guy Maddin's complete career. Krakow: Korporacja Ha! Art, 2009.
- David Church, editor. Playing With Memories: Essays on Guy Maddin. Winnipeg: University of Manitoba Press, 2009. 280 pages. My essay on collaborating with Guy is REPRINTED in this volume.
- Caelum Vatnsdal, Kino Delirium: The Films of Guy Maddin. Winnipeg: Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2000.
- Commissioned Essays and Creative Work
- 2015
- "Joseph Minion Talks With his Characters," in Lost Souls, edited by Elizabeth McCarthy and Bernice Murphy, Dublin: Pleasure Dome, 2016.
- 2014
- "Status Updates," George Toles & Cliff Eyland, Prairie Fire (Autumn 2014), Volume 35, Number 3, pp. 31-52
- 2013
- "Dipping into Omniscience With Willa Cather: Authorial Knowledge as Love," in Understanding Love in Philosophy, Fiction, and Film, edited by Susan Wolf and Christopher Grau. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, 315-43.
- "Writing about Performance: The Film Critic as Actor" in The Language and Style of Film Criticism, edited by Alex Clayton and Andrew Klevan, New York: Routledge, 2011, pp. 87-106
- "Trying to Remember Clementine" in Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,: Philosophers on Film. Edited by Christopher Grau. Routledge, New York: Routledge, 2009, pp. 111-157.
- "Double Minds and Double Binds in Stanley Kubrick's Fairy Tale" in Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey, New Essays, edited by Robert Kolker, New York: Oxford University Press, 2006, pp. 147-176.
- Refereed Essays, Reviews and Interviews
- 2016
- Commissioned essays on John Barrymore and Montgomery Clift's performance in A Place in the Sun, due summer 2016. Two edited collections.
- 2013
- "Luxury and Largesse in Film." in Movie: A Journal of Film Criticism, edited by V.F. Perkins, Issue 4, 2013, pp. 7-19.
- "Time's Timing and the Threat of Laughter in Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now", in The Last Laugh: Strange Humors of Cinema, edited by Murray Pomerance. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013, pp. 109-126.
- "Don Draper and the Promises of Life," in Television: Aesthetics and Style, edited by Jason Jacobs and Steven Peacock. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013, pp. 147-73.
- "A Gash in the Portrait: Martin Arnold's Deanimated" in the Oxford Handbook of Sound and Images in Digital Media, edited by Carol Vernallis, Amy Herzog, and John Richardson. In both print and online versions. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 214-235.
- REPRINT. "Silent Cinema—An Aesthetic Call to Arms" in The New Brick Reader, edited by Tara Quinn, Toronto: Anansi, 2013, pp. 200-207.
- A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, containing my "Occasions of Sin" essay on Strangers on a Train has just been reissued by Wiley-Blackwell in a paperback edition, 2013
- Pre-2013 essays
- "Adding Up the Gestures: What We See of Harry Lime." In Focus series in Cinema Journal, Volume 51, No. 3, Spring 2012, pp.142-149.
- "Cocoon of Fire: Awakening to Love in Murnau's Sunrise", Film International, Vol. 9, No. 6, Special issue on Silent Film Drama, pp. 8-29.
- "Rescuing Fragments: A New Task for Cinephilia," part of the In Focus: Cinephilia Forum, edited by Mark Betz. Cinema Journal, Vol. 49, No. 2, Winter 2010, pp.159-166.
- "Drowning Children with Flannery O'Connor", Raritan, Volume XXXI, No. 3, Winter 2012, pp. 148-163.
- ""'Brando Sings!': The Invincible Star Persona", in Theorizing Film Acting, edited by Aaron Taylor, New York: Routledge, 2012, pp.76-89.
- "Acting Ordinary in Ernst Lubitsch's The Shop Around the Corner". Movie, an on-line refereed journal, reviving the distinguished british film journal, Movie. Edited by V.F. Perkins and Andrew Klevan. University of Reading, Issue 1, 2010, pp. 1-15.
- "The Gift of Amnesia in John Brahm's The Locket", Film International's special issue on Film and the Romantic, Vol. 7, No. 6, 2009, pp.32-55.
- "Occasions of Sin: The Forgotten Cigarette Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Hitchcock", in A Companion to Alfred Hitchcock, edited by Leland Poague and Thomas Leitch, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 529-552.
- Foreword, "Fragments", to a collection entitled Fragments by Birna Bjarnadottir with artwork by Cliff Eyland, Haraldur Jonsson, and Guy Maddin. Winnipeg: Kind Publishers, 2010, pp. xi-xix.
- Afterword to a Dalkey Archives re-print of Henry Green's novel, Back. Champaign: 2009, pp. 209-18.
- "The Forgotten Lighter and Other Moral Accidents in Strangers on a Train", Raritan, Volume XXVIII, No. 4, Spring 2009, pp. 111-137.
- RE-PRINT. Harold Bloom reprinted my Raritan essay on A Streetcar Named Desire, in a new collection of essays devoted to reconsiderations of Williams's play, 2009. Bloom's Modern Critical Interpretations, Infobase Publishing, pp. 61-83.
- Interview with Jeff Crouse on Film Criticism, Aesthetics, and Screenwriting. "Remystifying movies", Film International, Vol. 6, No. 3, 2008. pp. 10-25.
- RE-PRINT. Expanded version of "Silent Cinema—An Aesthetic Call to Arms" published in Brick, No. 80, Winter 2007. pp. 44-52.
- "Silent Film—An Aesthetic Call to Arms" and "Notes on Four Silent Films", published in the Fall, 2006 programme of the Canadian Film Institute. I curated a silent film series for the CFI in 2006.
- "Eloquent Objects, Mesmerizing Commodities in William Wyler's The Heiress", in the special Stanley Cavell issue of Film International, edited by Jeff Crouse. Issue 22, Vol. 4, No. 4, 2006, pp. 48-67.
- "A Few Moments of Arousal in a Film by Martin Arnold", Exile Cinema: Filmmakers at Work Beyond Hollywood, edited by Michael Atkinson, SUNY Horizons series, 2008, pp. 101-111. This essay was also published concurrently in Cinematic Folds: The Furling and Unfurling of Images, edited by Firoza Elavia. Toronto: Pleasure Dome, 2008, pp.145-155.
- RE-PRINT. Judith Thompson's plays—"'Cause You're the Only One I Want': The Anatomy of Love in the Plays of Judith Thompson"—in Judith Thompson, edited by Ric Knowles, Critical Perspectives on Canadian Theatre in English, Vol. 3, Toronto: Playwrights Canada Press, 2005, pp. 1-19.
- "Auditioning Betty in Mulholland Drive", Film Quarterly, Vol. 58, No. 1, Fall 2004, pp. 2-13.
- "Animals Drunk and Sober, Famished and Dead in Jean Stafford's Fiction," Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 60, No. 4, Winter 2004, pp. 99-138.
- RE-PRINT. Third re-print of my essay on Psycho, published in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho: A Casebook, edited by Robert Kolker, New York: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 119-145.
- "The Witchery of Ease", Raritan, Vol. XXIII, No. 4, Spring 2004, pp. 128-159.
- "Believing in Gary Cooper," Criticism, Vol. 45, No.1, Winter 2003, pp. 31-52.
- RE-PRINT. "Sighs Too Deep For Words: Mysteries of Need in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping", included in a new book on contemporary literary criticism, issued by Gale Publishing in November, 2003.
- "The Music Men: Guy Maddin and George Toles on The Saddest Music in the World." Cinemascope, Issue 16, Fall 2003, pp. 5-12. [Cover Story]
- "Drowning for Love: Jean-Claude Lauzon's Leolo" in Canada's Best Features: Critical Essays on 15 Canadian Films, edited by Eugene Walz. Rodopi Press, 2002, pp. 273-301.
- "On a Train to the Kingdom of Earth: Watching De Sica's Children" in Vittorio De Sica: Contemporary Perspectives, edited by Steve Snyder and Howard Curle. University of Toronto Press, 2000, pp. 101-125.
- RE-PRINT of "'If Thine Eye Offends Thee..': Psycho and the Art of Infection" in Hitchcock: Centenary Essays, edited by Richard Allen, New York University Press, 1999. In 2004 this essay was again reprinted in a collection of essays devoted to Psycho, edited by Robert Kolker for Oxford University Press.
- "Adapting Melville for TV", Prairie Fire, Winter 2000, pp. 36-38.
- "Obvious Mysteries in Fargo." Michigan Quarterly Review, Vol. XXXVIII, No. 4, Autumn 1999, pp. 627-664.
- "The Toy Madness of Jane Bowles", Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 54, No. 4, Winter 1998, pp. 83-110.
- "From Archangel to Mandragora in Your Own Backyard: Collaborating with Guy Maddin", Postscript, Vol. 18, No. 2, Winter/Spring 1999, pp. 52-63.
- "Dikemaster's Daughter", Border Crossings, Vol. 16, No. 4, November 1997, pp.34-41.
- "This May Hurt a Little: The Art of Humiliation in Film.", Film Quarterly, Vol. 48, No. 4, Summer 1995, pp. 2-14.
- "Blanche DuBois and the Kindness of Endings." Raritan, Vol. XIV, No. 4, Spring 1995, pp. 115-43.
- "Being Well-Lost in Film", Raritan, Vol. XIII, No. 2, Fall 1993, pp. 85-110
- "Thinking About Movie Sentiment: Toward a Reading of Random Harvest", Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 49, No. 2, Summer 1993, pp. 75-111.
- "Practically an American Home: James Agee's Family Solitudes", The Southern Literary Journal, Vol. XXV, No. 2, Spring 1993, pp. 39-56.
- "The Mystery of Crinkle's Nose", Raritan, Vol. XI, No. 3, Winter 1992, pp. 80-97.
- "'Sighs too Deep for Words': Mysteries of Need in Marilynne Robinson's Housekeeping". Arizona Quarterly, Vol. 47. No. 4, Winter 1991, pp. 137-56.
- Review of three Canadian Playwrights' plays. (Margaret Hollingsworth's Endangered Species, Dennis Foon's Skin & Liars, and Peter Anderson's Rattle in the Dash). Canadian Literature, No. 127, Winter 1990, pp. 162-64.
- "The Metaphysics of Style in Tender is the Night", American Literature, Vol. 62, No. 3, September 1990, pp. 423-444.
- "Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window as Critical Allegory" boundary 2, Volume XVI, No. 2, Winter/Spring 1989, pp. 225-245.
- "'Cause you're the only one I want': The Anatomy of Love in the Plays of Judith Thompson". Canadian Literature, No. 118, Autumn, 1988, pp. 116-135.
- "'No Bigger than Zuzu's Petals': Dream Messages, Epiphanies, and the Undoing of Conventions in Frank Capra's It's a Wonderful Life", North Dakota Quarterly, Vol. 52, No. 3, Summer 1984, pp. 43-66.
- "'If Thine Eye Offends Thee...': Psycho and the Art of Infection", New Literary History, Vol. XV, No. 3, Spring 1984, pp. 631-651.
- Guest Editor, Special Issue of Mosaic on "Film/Literature", Vol. XVI No. 1-2, 1983. Published as book.
- "Mark Twain and Pudd'nhead Wilson: A House Divided." Novel, Vol. 16, No. 1, Fall 1982, pp. 55-75.
- "Charting the Hidden Landscape: Edgar Huntly," Early American Literature, Vol. XVI, No. 2, Fall 1981, pp. 133-153.
- Review of Robert Frost and New England: The Poet as Regionalist, New England Quarterly, Vol. LIII, No. 2, 1980, pp. 252-254.
- "The Space Between: A Study of Faulkner's Sanctuary", Texas Studies in Literature and Language, Vol. 22, No. 1, Spring 1980, pp. 22-47.
- A substantial section of the above-mentioned essay has been reprinted in Twentieth Century Interpretations of Sanctuary. Edited by I. Douglas Canfield, Prentice Hall, Inc., 1982, pp. 120-128.
- "Frank Capra: The Art of the Moralist." The Canadian Review of American Studies, Vol. IX, No. 4, Fall 1978, pp. 249-260.
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