List of selected articles and book chapters
Articles
“Gran Torino: Eastwood as Fallen Saviour.” CineAction 85 (Winter 2011), 34-42.
Commentary on an image from Dead Ringers (David Cronenberg 1988) for an exhibition of 50 images entitled David Cronenberg - The Chromosomes Exhibition, curators David Cronenberg, Luca Massimo Barbero and Domenico da Gaetano, Turin, October 2008.
“Maddin and Melodrama.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies, 14.2 (Fall 2005), 2-17.
“A.I.: or, the Agony of Steven Spielberg.” CineAction 66 (April 2005), 2-11.
“The Crisis of Classicism in Hollywood, 1967-77.” S: European Journal for Semiotic Studies, 10. 1-2 Transscientific Semiotics I/II (1998), 7-23.
“Insect Poetics: Cronenberg’s Naked Lunch.” Canadian Review of Comparative Literature, 23.3 (September 1996), 823-851.
“Lost and Gone Forever: Cronenberg’s Dead Ringers.” Post/Script, 15.2 (Winter/Spring 1996), 11-28.
“Unforgiven and the Uncertainties of the Heroic.” Canadian Journal of Film Studies 3.2 (Fall 1994), 41-62.
“The Canadianness of David Cronenberg.” Mosaic 27.2 (June 1994), 113-133.
“Cronenberg, Flyness and the Other-self.” Cinémas 4.2, (Winter 1994), 153-173.
“American Madness: Concepts of Culture and Sanity in The American Friend and Stroszek.” Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 40 (1992), 59-74.
“An Anatomy of Melancholy: Cronenberg’s Dead Zone.” Journal of Canadian Studies, 27.4 (Winter 1992-3), 169-179.
Book chapters
“Lies of Our Fathers: mythology and artifice in Eastwood’s cinema,” in New Essays on Clint Eastwood, ed. Leonard Engel. University of Utah Press 2012, 224-248.
“1960. Alfred Hitchcock engineers the violent death of Hollywood classicism: Psycho,” in A New Literary History of America, ed. Greil Marcus, David Thomson et. al. Harvard University Press 2008, 885-9.
“Atom Egoyan: Unnatural Relations,” in Great Canadian Film Directors, ed. George Melnyk, University of Alberta Press, 2007, 99-124.
“Rich and Strange: Atom Egoyan’s Exotica,” in 24 Frames: The Cinema of Canada, ed. Jerry White, Wallflower Press, 2006, 195-204.
“Speaking Parts: The Geometry of Desire,” in Image + Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan, ed. Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2007, 229-248.
“The Adjuster: Playing House,” in Image and Territory: Essays on Atom Egoyan, ed. Monique Tschofen and Jennifer Burwell, Wilfrid Laurier University Press 2007, 53-78.
“32 Paragraphs About David Cronenberg,” in Beard and White, eds., North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, University of Alberta Press 2002, 144-159.
“Clint Eastwood as a Virtual Hero,” in Wojciech H. Kalaga and Tadeusz Rachwał, eds., Signs of Culture: Simulacra and the Real, Peter Lang 2000, 215-225.
“The Visceral Mind: The Major Films of David Cronenberg,” in The Shape of Rage: the Films of David Cronenberg, ed. Piers Handling (Toronto: Academy of Canadian Cinema 1983), 1-79.