Articles on Film and Television

“The Trauma is Out There: Historical Disjunctions and the Posttraumatic Narrative as Process in The X-Files,” in Mythologies of Violence in Postmodern Media.  Ed.  Christopher Sharrett (Detroit, MI: Wayne State University Press; October, 1999).

Back to the Future I and II: Re-Creationism, Repetition and Perversity in the Time Travel Romance,” Psychoanalytic Review, 85, 6(1998): 953 – 974.

“Boys in Space: Star Trek, Latency and The NeverEnding Story,” Cinema Journal, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Winter, 1996): 43-60.  This paper was reprinted in an expanded version in Enterprise Zones: Critical Positions on Star Trek. Ed.  Taylor Harrison, Sarah Projansky, Kent A.  Uno, and   Elyce Rae Helford (Boulder: Westview Press, 1996), 189-210.

“Beyond the Yellow Brick Road: The Reconstitution of the Maternal Past in Peggy Sue Got Married,” Psychoanalytic Review, 83, 6(1996): 891-911.

“The Beam That Fell and Other Crises in The Maltese Falcon,” in The Maltese Falcon.  Ed.  William Luhr  (New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers, 1995), 181-202.

“Well, I Guess I Must Make You Nervous: Woman and the Space of Alien³,” PostScript, 14, 1&2(1994-95): 45-58.

“The Sight of Difference,” in Re-Viewing British Cinema 1900-1992:  Essays and Interviews.  Ed.  Wheeler Dixon (New York: SUNY, 1994), 177-194.

The Crying Game,” Society for Philosophic Study of Contemporary Visual Arts, IV, 1(February, 1994): 11-12.

“That Hurts!:  Humor and Sadomasochism in Lolita,” Journal of Film and Video, 46, 2(1994): 3-18.

“To Be Real: Shame, Envy and the Reflections of Self in Masquerade,” Discourse, 15, 2(Winter 1992-93): 80-93.

“The Look Back in ET,” Cinema Journal, 31, 4(1992): 25-41.

“OUTATIME:  Re-Creationism and the Adolescent Experience in Back to the Future,” Psychoanalytic Review, 77, 4(1990): 587- 608.

“Aliens Among Us: A Representation of Children in Science Fiction,” Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association, 37(1989): 737 – 760.

Alien Within, Aliens Without: The Primal Scene and the Return to the Repressed,” American Imago, 45(1988): 337-358.