Songs for a Blue Guitar and the American Sublime [Work in Progress]
Cinematic Music Goes Down Under: The Jezabels
EssayJim BurlingameLawrence of Arabia, The Jezabels, Hayley Mary, Mark Rothko, Synthia, Kate Bush, Siouxsie and the Banshees, the Eurythmics, the Pet Shop Boys, U2, The Edge, The Unforgettable Fire, The Joshua Tree, Brian Eno, Avalon, David Byrne, Daniel Lanois, For the Beauty of Wynona, The Brink, Elliot Smith, Seattle, Portland, Disco Biscuit Love, Dark Storm, Pleasure Drive, Hurt Me, Time to Dance, Midnight Oil
"Do They Know It's Christmas?" Is The Ebenezer Scrooge of Holiday Songs
EssayJim BurlingameDo They Know It's Christmas, A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens, Bob Geldof, Midge Ure, The Boomtown Rats, Woody Guthrie, I Don't Like Mondays, Elvis Costello, Pink Floyd, The Wall, My Favorite Murder, Roger Waters, Band Aid, Duran Duran, David Bowie, the Eurythmics, INXS, Michael Hutchence, We Are the World, Phil Collins, Bono, Simon Le Bon, Sting, LIVE 105, New Order, Depeche Mode, Erasure, The Smiths, R.E.M., Peter Gabriel, Talking Heads, Ultravox, John Lennon, Happy Xmas (War Is Over), Ode to Joy, Simple Minds, Don't You (Forget About Me), Alive and Kicking, Jim Kerr, Lady Gaga, The Killers, Brandon Flowers
Magic and Capitalism [Excerpt]
EssayJim BurlingameCapitalism, The American Dream, Winter's Tale, Mark Helprin, Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell, Susanna Clarke, Carol Lee Flinders, The Values of Belonging, Bronislaw Malinowski, Magic, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, William McKinley, L. Frank Baum, Harry Houdini, William Jennings Bryan, Gilded Age, Mark Twain, Teddy Roosevelt, Thorstein Veblen, Adam Smith, Matilda Gage, Bruno Bettelheim, John Gottman
The Feminine in Terrence Malick's Films
EssayJim BurlingameTerrence Malick, The Tree of Life, American Transcendentalist, masculine, feminine, Badlands, Wittgenstein, Susan Bordo, Rene Descartes, Francis Bacon, The Thin Red Line, The New World, Days of Heaven, Joseph Campbell, the Tao, Hans Zimmer
Masculinity in Wes Anderson's Films
EssayJim BurlingameWes Anderson, masculine, feminine, masculinity, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, play, Senex, Puer, Bruno Bettelheim, Noah Baumbach