David PhelpsClub Crisis ScreeningsWeek 8: Directed by/Selected by Dan SallittMay 20, 2020May 20, 2020
David PhelpsOrigins of CampNotes on a mini-series presented for Club Crisis (The Scarlet Empress, The Old Dark House, Cleopatra, This Day and Age, Sylvia Scarlett…Apr 6, 2020Apr 6, 2020
David PhelpsCow 1: The Old and the NewDoes language gender any species so diametrically as the cow-bull? Not only is there no neutral singular across languages from English to…Jul 20, 2018Jul 20, 2018
David Phelps2–3 Thoughts on narrative structure (and The Fault in Our Stars)I realized that when I write, I write in 6-act structures. This was a bit of a surprise to me since I intended to write in 4-part…Apr 16, 2017Apr 16, 2017
David PhelpsAre Moonlight and La La Land the same movie?I wonder if anyone else had the feeling the La La Land and Moonlight are something of the same project, with the politics reversed. Both…Mar 4, 2017Mar 4, 2017
David PhelpsinApplaudienceChevalier/SiodmakMaurice Chevalier’s entrance 29 minutes into Robert Siodmak’s Pièges (1939) offers what in Siodmak might be called romantic relief; forever…Aug 13, 2016Aug 13, 2016
David PhelpsTranslating Hillary Clinton’s response to OrlandoFollowing an armed American’s attack on an LGBT, Latino nightclub in Orlando, Hillary Clinton has begun asserting that the United States…Jun 13, 2016Jun 13, 2016
David PhelpsWhy I Support Bernie Sanders: An Open-Source Letter to My NeighborsThe following is a letter I wrote to drop under my neighbors’ door about why I am supporting Bernie Sanders in New York, a week from the…Apr 12, 2016Apr 12, 2016
David PhelpsPersuasion, Negotiation, and Why Bernie Sanders Would be a More Effective President than Hillary…The following is modified from a speech given to high schoolers at Riverdale Country School, one of New York’s elite private schools, on a…Apr 7, 2016Apr 7, 2016