Writing by Topic: TV & Movies
On the Vault
- “A Harsh, But Efficient, Form Rejection Letter For Silent Film Screenwriters” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 27, 2016)
- “The 37 Basic Plots, According to a Screenwriter of the Silent Film Era” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 27, 2015)
- “The BBC”s Hilarious 1948 Style Guidelines ‘On Matters of Taste'” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, July 6, 2015)
- “Etiquette Lessons for the Annoying Moviegoers of Early Cinema” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 28, 2014)
- “Casting the Role of Scarlett O’Hara Was Really, Really Frustrating” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 22, 2014)
- “The Lantern Slides That Advertised Coming Attractions in the Silent Film Era” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, October 10, 2014)
- “All the Violent Shows on TV in Chicago, One Day in 1954” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, January 27, 2014)
- “How to Stage An Action Sequence in 1935: An Effects Master’s Colorful Portfolio” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, August 7, 2013)
- “In Which Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton Plot Ways to Look Uglier” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 18, 2013)
- “Watch One of the First Female Standups Own the Room on Live TV” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, June 10, 2013)
- “Pages from the Official Star Trek Writers’ Guide, 1967” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, May 14, 2013)
- “Montgomery Clift Squirms Through a Montgomery Clift Movie” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, March 7, 2013)
- “Marlon Brando’s Little Black Book” (Slate‘s The Vault blog, February 6, 2013)
Everywhere Else
- “Can You Tell When This Vintage Home Movie Was Filmed?” (Slate, March 30, 2016)
- “The Most Accurate Part of The Witch? It Nails the Desperate, Crazed Mindset of Early American Settlers” (Slate‘s Browbeat blog, February 29, 2016)
- “Arrested Development, Season 4: Jessica Walter is the Best Actor on Arrested Development” (chat with June Thomas) (Slate‘s TV club, June 3, 2013)
- “Arrested Development, Season 4: Tobias Gets Served” (chat with Lowen Liu) (Slate‘s TV Club, May 20, 2013)
- “Tatum and Hill Have Easy, Funny Rapport” (interview with Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum) (Austin-American Statesman, March 15, 2012)
- “Science vs. Childhood on ‘Fringe'” (Songbirds and Satellites, November 29, 2010)
- “Screening Winky-Dink: The First Interactive TV Show” [PDF] (Paperweight, Autumn/Winter 2010)
- “Sharksploitation!: Jaws and the Sad Decline of the Shark Movie” (Slate, June 16, 2005)
- “Flick Chicks” (on girls who love “Lord of the Rings”) [PDF] (The New Republic, online, December 19, 2003)
- “The Double Lives They Lead” [PDF] (The New Republic, online; October 22, 2003)