Upcoming Book Projects
Cruel Modernism: Casting, Celebrity, and Personality Theory in U.S. Cinema and Literature, 1920-1940
This manuscript considers the confluence of the Great Depression, personality science, and the formalization of Hollywood casting practices and celebrity culture in U.S. modernist literature and film. I argue that new accounts of what a person is emerged through the braiding together of these three discourses, which in turn justified both deployments and refusals of empathy.
This manuscript considers the confluence of the Great Depression, personality science, and the formalization of Hollywood casting practices and celebrity culture in U.S. modernist literature and film. I argue that new accounts of what a person is emerged through the braiding together of these three discourses, which in turn justified both deployments and refusals of empathy.
Occult Celebrity
This project offers a theory of the relationship between audiences and celebrity in our present moment – an interaction characterized by a violence born of both our information age and the move to digital representation.
This project offers a theory of the relationship between audiences and celebrity in our present moment – an interaction characterized by a violence born of both our information age and the move to digital representation.
