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Story

Theory

Aesthetic

Film Festivals
• Searching for Joel Stein: Park CIty 2009

• Tail O' Sundance 2008

• Big Love in Park City 2007

• HypeFest 2007

• Method Fest 2004

• Method Fest 2003

• Park City: Catsy and Tammy Tonic / Sundance / NoDance Film Festivals 2003

• Post-it Notes from Park City: Sundance / NoDance Film Festivals 2003

• Los Angeles Independent Film Festival 2002

• Silver Lake Film Festival 2002

• South by Southwest (SXSW) Documentaries 2002

Film Reviews
• A.I.
• About a Boy
• About Schmidt
• Across the Universe
• Adaptation
• Almost Famous
• Alpha Dog
• Amélie
• American Splendor
• American Zombie
• Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy
• Atonement
• Australia
• Babel
• Barton Fink
• The Bases are Loaded
• Batman Begins
• A Beautiful Mind
• Being Julia
• Bend It Like Beckham
• Big Fish
• The Big Picture
• Blades of Glory
• Blue Crush
• Blue Vinyl
• Body Image:The Quest for Perfection
• The Bourne Identity
• The Bourne Ultimatum
• Bowling for Columbine
• Boys Don't Cry
• The Break-Up
• Brokeback Mountain
• Bring It On
• Capote
• Capturing the
Friedmans
• Casino Royale
• Catch Me If You Can
• Chelsea Walls
• Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
• Chicago
• City, Park City
• A Clockwork Orange
• Closer
• Cloverfield
• Clueless
• Cocktail
• Cold Mountain
• Collateral
• Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
• Crash
• CSNY Deja Vu
• The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
• Dangerous Minds
•The Darjeeling Limited
• The Dark Knight
• A Decade Under the Influence
• The Deep End
• Derrida
•The Devil Wears Prada
• Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star
• Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood
• Dodgeball: A True Underdog Story
• Dogtown and Z-Boys
• Donnie Darko
• Down With Love
• Dreamgirls
• Eight Legged Freaks
• 8 Mile
• Election
• Elephant
• Entourage
• Entourage:One Day in the Valley
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
• Fahrenheit 9/11
• Far From Heaven
• Fast Times at Ridgemont High
• Ferris Bueller's Day Off
• Finding Nemo
• Garden State
• Ghost World
• The Good Girl
• Good Night and Good Luck
• Gran Torino
• Grindhouse
•Fantastic Mr. Fox
• Hamlet 2
• Harold and Maude
• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets
• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
• Heathers
• Hedwig and the Angry Inch
• Heist
• Hellboy
• Hero (Ying Xiong)
• Highball
• The Hills Have Eyes II
• A Hitchhikers' Guide to the Universe
• Holes
• The Hoax
• Hustle & Flow
• I Heart Huckabees
• I Love Your Work
• Igby Goes Down
• Inglourious Basterds
• Insomnia
• Interiors
• Inventing the Abbotts
• Ironman
• Jimmy Neutron: Boy Genius
• Journeys With George
• Juno
• Kicking and Screaming
• The Kid Stays in the Picture
• Kissing Jessica Stein
• Lachrymose
• The Last King of Scotland
• The Last Party 2000
• Laurel Canyon
• Lilo & Stitch
• The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou
• Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
• Lords of Dogtown
• Love Actually
• Lovely and Amazing
• Mad Men
• Mai's America
• The Man Without a Past
• Margot at the Wedding
• Marie Antoinette
• Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World
• Matchstick Men
• Me and You and Everyone We Know
• Me Without You
• Mean Girls
• Melinda and Melinda
• Memento
• Metallica: Some Kind of Monster
• Million Dollar Baby
• Mission Impossible III
• Milk
• Minority Report
• Modern Girls
• Monsoon Wedding
• Monster-in-Law
• Monsters, Inc.
• The Motorcycle Diaries
• Moulin Rouge
• Mr. Jealousy
• Munich
• My Big Fat Greek Wedding
• Napoleon Dynamite
• New Moon
• No Country for Old Men
• North Shore
• Nowhere in Africa
• Ocean's Eleven
• The Others
• OT: Our Town
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Personal Velocity
• Phoebe in Wonderland
• The Pianist
• Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl
• Pirates of the Caribbean: At World's End
• Punch-Drunk Love
• Quantum of Solace
• The Queen
• The Quiet American
• Rabbit-Proof Fence
• Rachel Getting Married
• Ray
• Real Women Have Curves
• Riding Giants
• The Right Man for the Job
• Road to Perdition
• Rocket Science
• The Rookie
• The Royal Tenenbaums
• There Will Be Blood
• Running With Scissors
• Saved!
• The Salton Sea
•The School of Rock
•Scoop
• Sex and the City: The Movie
• Shaun of the Dead
• Shimmer
• Shopgirl
• Sidewalks of N.Y.
• Sideways
• The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants
• Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
• Slither
• Slumdog Millionaire
• Spellbound
• Spider-Man
• Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron
• Spirited Away (Sen To Chihiro No Kamikakushi)
• The Squid and the Whale
• Star Wars-Episode II: Attack of the Clones
• Starsky and Hutch
• Starter for Ten
• Step Into Liquid
• Stick It
• The Strangers
• Superbad
• Sugar and Spice
• Swimming Pool
• Talk to Her
• Team America: World Police
• Thirteen
• Transformers
• Tropic Thunder
• Unhook the Stars
• The Upside of Anger
• Vanilla Sky
• Valley Girl
• Vera Drake
• Virgin Suicides
• Waiting for Guffman
• We Sold Our Souls for Rock 'n' Roll
• Whale Rider
• Women on the Edge of a Nervous Breakdown
• Wall•E
• Walk the Line
• The Wedding Banquet
• Wonderland
• The Wrestler
• Y Tu Mamá También
• You, Me and Dupree
• Zoolander

Comic Strip
• Invasion of the Freaks

Darts on a Grid
• All the Girls Called Themselves Sheena: Bryan Knox Punk Rox

• Arranged Marriage or Love Match? Interview With Modern Gujarati Girls Tina Patel and Meeta Sunderwala

• Brace Yourself : Interview with a Thirteen Year Old California Girl

• From the Valley to
Silver Lake: Twenty
Years of Making the
Scene—Interview with
stylist Kim Lipot Ochoa

• Hang Ten: Interview with the Surfing D.A.

• Jane Monahan + Eddie Money 4-Ever

• Local Motion: An Interview with Destiny

• Playing Dress Up: Interview with Eilish: Charmed's Costume Designer

• The Priest Who Wore Doc Martens

Icon
• Exene

Paper Weight
• 100 Papers
• Barton Fink
• Before Night Falls
• Book City and Dutton's Books
• The Dante Club
• Brokeback Mountain
• The Great Gatsby
• In Cold Blood
• Keen Eddie
• Life of Pi
•The Lovely Bones
• A Simple Habana Melody
• This Side of Paradise
• Truman Capote's Miriam
• Mr. Blur

Poetry
• Freewheeling Raga
• Nocturne
• Proselyte Seductions
• The Rarest Birdfish

Screenplay
• Nelson: Rock and Roll Detectives

Short Fiction
• The Adventures of Tiki the Talking Taco
• The Attack
• Frank Sinatra
•Hypothecating In Expectation Of Caroline• Little Mind Wipe
• Martian Mayhem
• One Night While Traveling
• Piccolo Blues
• The Poem
• Prepared
• Shoulder 1884
• The Thirteenth Dimension
• You Better Watch

Stream of Consciousness
• Bridge Over Seventh Decade
• Gypsies, Dogs, and Corn: The Budapest Circus and Fun Fair
• put it on a stick
• Hollywood Christmas Parade
and it’s done: A VISIT TO THE MINNESOTA STATE FAIR
•Tammy Tonic's Top Five Films About Fairs
•What Would Marshall McLuhan Say?

Dramatica Theory Article
• Challenging Narrative Rules in Go and
Magnolia

• The Four
Throughlines of a
Dramatica Grand
Argument

• The Impact of Subject Matter in a Dramatica Grand
Argument

Dramatica Story Analyses
• American Beauty
• Boogie Nights
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• The Butcher Boy
• Celebrity
• Dogma
• Gods and Monsters
• Happiness
• House of Yes
• Il Postino
• The Iron Giant
• Lolita
• Love & Death on Long Island
• A Room With a View
• My So Called-Life
• She's All That
• Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace
• Three Kings
• To Kill A Mockingbird
• Welcome to the Dollhouse
• Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?
• Without Limits

Essay
• The Corporation
• Death in Venice
• Film Noir: Double Indemnity and Memento
• Funny Ladies: Jane Austen Heroines in Sex and the City
• Judgment Day: Salman Rushdie's Shame
• Losing the Center
• Makeover Madness
• Old Man and The Bear
• The Quest Through Multicultural Arts
• Leo Tolstoy Stories
• TV Toons
• Why So Much Backstory Now?

Political
•Obama Oh! Go Go

Art
• A.E.
• Aaliyah
• Angel in the Mist / Devil in the Bush
• Anti-War Cry
• Bachelorette Beach Party
• Bare Bones
• Beautiful Lady
• Blonde
• Breaking Free from Tradition
• California Girls
• Celestial Shadows
• Children's Room Mural
• City Rush
• Close / Fruit
• Dark of the Moon
• Deja Vu
• Flower Child
• Gillian
• Lady's Slipper
• Lamp Shade
• Large Red Khamsa
with Mirrors
• Linoleum Block
• Long Gone
• Marina
• Monkey
• Moon
• Musicians, Ramones, Artisans, Morticians
• Museum
• The 'n Crowd
• The Night Lights the Way
• Night Walk
• Otter's Surfmobile
• Paisley Pie
• Perpetua l
• Punk Rock Doc. Destroy Date: Never
• Red Chandelier
• Red Khamsa
• Roots and Rows
• Self-Portrait w/Cymbal
• Small Altar
• Strumpet
• Tattoo
• Texas Lotus
• Thai Wrap
• The Vegetables Dancing
• Tiki Team
• Torch
• 2 Hamburgers 2 Go • Welcome to God's House
• Will You Know
Poison Lily from
Wild Onion?
• The World Famous KROQ

Costume Design
• Eilish Charmed Fashions

Fashion Boutique
• Audrey*K

Epicurean
• Roasts to Go

Fashion Design
• Where the Wild Thing Is

Interior Design
• Pollyanne
Hornbeck's Dollhouse of Horrors
• Pollyanne Hornbeck's Dollhouse of Horrors Part 2: It's the Nightmare After
Christmas

Libation
• The Frolic Room
• The Good Luck Bar
• The Mayan
• Michael's Room
• Moomba
• Nacional
• North
• The Standard
• Three Clubs
• Yamakasa

Music
• Lisa Loeb: Cake and Pie
• Jill Sobule: Pink Pearl

Photography
• 50s Bride
• Baby You Can Drive
My Car
• Balboa Island Chairs
• Blue
• Britt Wit
• Capitola Theater
• Crazy Horse Memorial
• Everybody's All American
• Feelin' Groovy
• Fire Chick
• A Flock of Seagulls
• "Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific"
• Gold Post
• Gossiping Gourds
• Green
• Guitar Hero
• Halloween Costume
• Hula Girl
• Hypesters
• In Stripes — A Star Forever
• "Johnny was a schoolboy
When he heard his first Beatles song."
• Juliet Balcony
• Keep on Truckin'
• Long Point
• L.A.
• MNX541
•Not Just Any Britt Wit
•On the Road
• Paramount Ranch
• Please...Daisys
• Quarter Time
• The Real Housewife of San Marino
• Reservations Not Required
• Road Sign
• Salvation
• 70s Groom
• Sticks
• Sticks and Stones
• Summer in Algiers
• Surf Pismo
• Sweet Judi Blue Eyes
• Swing Low Sweet
Lillye
• A Tall Cold One
• Tiki Ti
• Tooth Fairy
• Trashy Novels?
• Venice in Colors
• Vestibule
• Vince's Grocery
• Wall View
• Wheels
• The World Famous KROQ
• Yellow

Song
• The United States of Whatever
• White Lines (Don't Do It)