JamesLibertarian PaternalismWhen acting of her own volition, a young, aspiring screenwriter once told me that she could devour screenplay after screenplay, drawing…Dec 9, 2021Dec 9, 2021
JamesBaseball ZeitgeistWhen the midnight hour struck and December 1st became December 2nd, Major League Baseball suddenly hit a stony silence. At this exact…Dec 8, 2021Dec 8, 2021
JamesConThe ballad “Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story” from Hamilton includes a theme that has really stuck with me over the years. After…Dec 7, 2021Dec 7, 2021
Jamesstories of the dark web.Over the past 3–5 years, a rag-tag group of iconoclasts with dedicated followingsーacademics, political commentators, podcast hostsー have…Oct 7, 2021Oct 7, 2021
JamesBlog: Stories SmatteringsThis blog post will consist of a random smattering of thoughts regarding my research topic: immersive (for now audiovisual) stories and…Oct 3, 2021Oct 3, 2021
JamesinWriting the ShipMusic and FilmWhen I was consulting with a classmate a few weeks ago about the direction of my research on stories, he wisely spitballed that a film’s…Sep 27, 2021Sep 27, 2021