Writings

David Lavery

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"24: Jumping the Shark Every Minute" (column from Flow)

50 Key Television Programmes: Buffy the Vampire Slayer (essay in reference book)

50 Key Television Programmes: The Sopranos (essay in reference book)

50 Key Television Programmes: Twin Peaks (essay in reference book)

50 Key Television Programmes: The X-Files (essay in reference book)

Adapted Lives: Literary into Cinematic Autobiography in Recent Film” (conference paper)

"Aesop After Darwin: The Radical Anthropomorphism of The Far Side" (essay in Studies in Popular Culture)

"The Allusions of Television" (column from Flow)

"Angel and Doll" (unpublished poem)

"The Anti-Gnosticism of E. M. Cioran" (chapter in Late for the Sky)

"Apocalyptic Apocalypses: The Narrative Eschatology of Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (essay from Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies)

Billy Jack” (entry from The Encyclopedia of Native American Literature)

’Body’s Earth’: H. E. Francis’ ‘Balad of the Engineer Carl Feldmann” (chapter from Late for the Sky)

"Bright Logic" (unpublished poem)

Can This Be the End of Tony Soprano?” (essay from Reading The Sopranos)

"Johnny Carson" (chapter in American Icons)

"Centered in the Eccentric: The Imagination of Bill Forsyth" (conference paper)

"Chagallite" (unpublished poem)

Climate Change: Editing Series Television Books” (essay from Critical Studies in Television)

“’Coming Heavy’: Intertextuality and Genre on The Sopranos” (essay from PopPolitics.com)

Coming Heavy’: The Significance of The Sopranos" (essay from This Thing of Ours)

"The Crying Game: Why Television Brings Us to Tears" (essay in Flow)

"Cutting the Tongue: Bi-Lingualism and the Discovery of Voice in Richard Rodriquez' Hunger of Memory and Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior" (conference paper)

Deconstruction at Bat: Baseball vs. Critical Theory in Northern Exposures ‘The Graduate’” (essay from Critical Studies in Television)

"The Delicious Progress: Whiteness as an Atavism in 'Silent Snow, Secret Snow’" (essay from Psychoanalytic Review)

"Detached Retinas: 'Camera Man' and the Private-Eye Film" (essay from Towards)

"Dissertations as Fictions" (essay from College English)

"Dropping the Body: The X-Files, Popular Culture, and Exosomatic Evolution" (essay in conference proceedings)

"Due Back on Planet Earth: Toward a Definition of Spaciness" (chapter in Late for the Sky)

"Electric Soil" (unpublished poem)

"'Emotional Resonance and Rocket Launchers': Joss Whedon's Commentaries on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer DVDs" (essay from Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies)

Erasing the Blackboard” (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

The Evolutionary Imagination” (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

Fatal Environment: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and American Culture” (unpublished talk)

"Felliniesque" (unpublished poem)

"Film's Le Pact Autobiographique" (conference paper)

"The French Disease: European Memes and the Infection of American Thought" (talk)

From Cinespace to Cyberspace: Zionists and Agents, Realists and Gamers in The Matrix and eXistenZ”  (essay in Journal of Popular Film and Television)

"Functional and Dysfunctional Autobiography: John Boorman's Hope and Glory and Terence Davies' Distant Voices, Still Lives" (essay from Film Criticism)

"Generation X: The X-Files and the Cultural Moment" (co-authored chapter in Deny All Knowledge: Reading The X-Files)

"The Geneva School Revisited" (conference paper)

The Genius of Joss Whedon” (afterword to Fighting the Forces)

"The Genius of the Sea: Wallace Stevens' 'The Idea of Order at Key West,' Stanislaw Lem's Solaris, and the Earth as Muse" (essay from Extrapolation)

"Gnosticism and the Cult Film" (chapter in Late for the Sky)

"haeccitas" (unpublished poem)

"’Holy Fucking Shit’: Profanation, Parody, and Bleeping American Unreality in The Onion, The Daily Show, and The Colbert Report” (Keynote, Giving and Taking Offence, University [Power Point Presentation])

"Home Movie 8 1/2: The Beerdrinker's Guide to Fitness and Filmmaking (from Postscript)

"The Horror Film and the Horror of Film" (essay from Film Criticism)

"How Barfield Thought" (talk)

"'I Only Had a Week': Television Creativity and Quality Television" (conference keynote address)

"'I Wrote My Thesis on You': Buffy Studies as an Academic Cult" (from Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies)

"Imagination and Insurance: Wallace Stevens and Benjamin Lee Whorf at the Hartford" (essay from Legal Studies Forum)

"In the Process of Becoming Real" (unpublished poem)

"Infinite Presumption" (chapter in Late for the Sky)

"Inside/Outside" (unpublished poem)

"Into Question" (unpublished poem)

"Irony Irony: The Mission Accomplished of The Daily Show" (column from Flow)

"It Dawns on Me: Teaching in the PRC" (unpublished essay)

"It's Not TV, It's Magic Realism: The Mundane, the Grotesque, and the Fantastic in Six Feet Under" (essay in Reading Six Feet Under)

"'The Light Is in Us': Susan Griffin's Method in Woman and Nature" (conference paper)

"Lines to be Submitted to the Journal for the Suppression of Reality" (unpublished poem)

Loren Eiseley and the New Humanities” (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

"Lost in a Good Story: Serial Creativity on a Desert Island" (column from Flow)

"Lost in the Funhouse: The Dream Life of The Sopranos" (conference paper)

"Magic Terminal Trip" (unpublished film treatment)

"Major Man: Fellini as an Autobiographer" (essay from Postscript)

Man as Longing” (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

The Mark of Cain” (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

"The Meme and the Seme" (conference paper)

"The Mind of Benjamin Whorf" (unpublished essay)

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Alexander

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Bad Company

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Barbershop

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Barbershop 2

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Basic

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Bridget Jones

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Capote

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Cinderella Man

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Danny Deckchair

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Deep Sea

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Devil Wears Prada

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Dukes of Hazzard

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Eight-Legged Freaks

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Enough

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Everything is Illuminated

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Final Destination 2

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Finding Nemo

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Flight Plan

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Girl With a Pearl Earring

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Holes

Movie Review (for All the Rage): The Hours

Movie Review (for All the Rage): The Importance of Being Earnest

Movie Review (for All the Rage): King Arthur

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Kingdom of Heaven

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Meet the Fockers

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Mona Lisa Smiles

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Monster

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Mr. Deeds

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Old School

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Open Range

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Ray

Movie Review (for All the Rage): The Recruit

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Robots

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Rockets Redglare!

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Secret Window

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Signs

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Shrek 2

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Sinbad

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Taking Lives

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Thunderbirds

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Two Weeks Notice

Movie Review (for All the Rage): V for Vendetta

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Welcome to Mooseport

Movie Review (for All the Rage): Windtalkers

Movie Review (for All the Rage): XXX

"Necessary Angel" (unpublished poem)

"Nemesis and NASA: The American Tragedy of The Challenger" (chapter in Late for the Sky)

"No Box of Chocolates: The Adaptation of Forrest Gump" (essay from Literature/Film Quarterly)

’No More Undiscovered Countries’: The Early Promise and Failed Disappointing Career of Time-Lapse Photography” (essay from Film Studies)

’Not Driving Stick Anymore’: The Naughty Side of Buffy (unpublished talk)

"Noticer: The Visionary Art of Annie Dillard" (essay from Massachusetts Review)

"The Odyssey of Loren Eiseley" (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

On Time-Lapse Photography (unpublished monograph)

"The Other Side is Myth: William Irwin Thompson, Cultural History, and the Evolution of Consciousness" (conference paper)

Out of and Into the Cave” (unpublished essay)

"Owen Barfield: A Readers Guide" (essay from Seven)

"The Pleasure of the Text" (an epistolary fiction)

"Preface" to Professional Wrestling, the Myth, the Mat, and American Popular Culture

Preferring Mystery” (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

Prehistory” (from Teleparody)

Primate Autobiography” (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

"The Real Two Cultures" (chapter in Late for the Sky)

"'A Religion in Narrative': Joss Whedon and Television Creativity" (essay from Slayage: The Online International Journal of Buffy Studies)

"Remote Control: Mythic Reflections" (essay in Journal of Popular Film and Television; reprinted in The Remote Control in the New Age of Television)

Review of Action TV (unpublished review)

Review of Astrid Diener, Owen Barfield's Early Work (from Mythlore)

Review of Billion Dollar Kiss: The Story of a Television Writer in the Hollywood Gold Rush (from Studies in Popular Culture)

Review of Californication and Cultural Imperialism: Baywatch and the Creation of World Culture, ed. by Andrew Anglophone (from Teleparody)

Review of Cogito Ergo Sum: The Life of René Descartes (from Georgia Review)

Review of Inside Prime Time and Teleliteracy (review in Television Quarterly)

Review of Television: Critical Methods and Applications (review in The Review of Communication)

Review of The Television Genre Book (review in Television and New Media)

Review of Television Histories (review in Television Quarterly)

Review of Television Tie-In Books (review in Television Quarterly)

Review of TV Creators, Vol. 2 (review in Television Quarterly)

"Revolution of the Earth" (chapter in Late for the Sky)

"Re-Weaving the Rainbow: The Achievement of Owen Barfield” (unpublished essay)

"Rooted in the Absence of Place: The Odyssey of Loren Eiseley" (essay in festschrift for Howard Gruber)

Rooted in the Absence of Place” (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

"Same-o, Same-O: Eternal Recurrence in Groundhog Day" (essay from Studies in Popular Culture)

"The Semiotics of Cobbler: Twin Peaks' Interpretive Community" (introduction from Full of Secrets)

’The Shadow of His Equipage’: Loren Eiseley and Animals” (chapter from the unpublished book Faith in the Distance: The Wisdom of Loren Eiseley)

"The Soul of Andy Sipowicz" (essay in PopPolitics)

"Space Boosters: Reflections on the Marketing of Unearthliness" (essay from Etc.: The Journal of General Semantics and chapter in Late for the Sky)

"The Streets of Shanghai: Totalitarian Driving in a Classless Society" (essay)

"To Hear Us Talk" (chapter in Late for th