Thomas Britt
Biographic Data
| ID | 133593 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Britt |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Britt |
| SIGNATURE | BRITT T |
| AFFILIATIONS | George Mason University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1334-4465 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Beyond Failure in After Last Season
This article considers Mark Region’s 2009 film After Last Season as a work whose reputation as a critical and commercial failure masks the innovative approach to film form that its amateur director achieved with the film. After Last Season is a distinct type of failed film that seems entirely divorced from classical cinema techniques and conventions. The alienation that results from Region’s creative choices prevents the film from enjoying succes…
Sleeping through The Big Lebowski
This paper examines incidents and themes of sleeping, dreaming, and resting within Joel and Ethan Coen's early filmography and their intensification in the 1998 feature film The Big Lebowski. These incidents and themes are also present, to some degree, in certain Raymond Chandler detective stories and adaptations thereof, which influenced The Big Lebowski. The Big Lebowski involves a convoluted mystery that prevents its characters, especially pro…
The Fiery Furnaces
This article addresses the topic of “sound-based recollection” through the work of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, musicians best known as brother-sister rock duo The Fiery Furnaces. Though the Friedbergers work primarily within music and not literature or film, I argue that their music is literature, especially in the way Matthew's lyrics and Eleanor's performances of those lyrics engage with their personal memories, including their creative re…
Neglecting physician desires to teach at an academic medical facility
PURPOSE: Recent findings have suggested that physicians who spend more time participating in their most meaningful job activities (e.g. teaching) are less likely to experience burnout. The current study aimed to expound upon this finding, focusing specifically on the role of teaching in promoting meaning and preventing burnout. METHOD: A total of 428 physicians at a large academic healthcare institution completed an online survey that included me…
Variations on ‘the lonely walk’ in the films of Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow prioritises spatial relationships in narratives featuring groups of men in high-pressure, threatening situations. Bigelow foregrounds the inner, individual experiences of characters within ensembles and institutions, ‘the lonely walk’ affording a useful way to visualise the action of isolated characters in danger. Bigelow’s use of spatial relationships to convey the inner lives of characters is an unorthodox mode for action films.…
Are We Missing the Mark? The Implementation of Community Based Participatory Education in Cancer Disparities Curriculum Development
Faithful Untidiness
Contemporary debates about faith and volunteering raise questions about the relationship between, on the one hand, claims from theological ethics about the sources and forms of Christian action in the world and, on the other hand, claims and assumptions in policy discourse about why people of faith undertake voluntary work. Using findings from a small-scale study of volunteers in a Christian social action organization in the UK, we argue that a n…
African-American Perspectives on 9-11
In the past few years, terrorism has introduced most Americans to trauma on their own soil. However, African-Americans have lived through trauma and terrorism within the U.S. for centuries. African-Americans have very different perceptions of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Historical data reveal that African-Americans have endured various forms of domestic terrorism for hundreds of years. B…
Faithful Untidiness
Contemporary debates about faith and volunteering raise questions about the relationship between, on the one hand, claims from theological ethics about the sources and forms of Christian action in the world and, on the other hand, claims and assumptions in policy discourse about why people of faith undertake voluntary work. Using findings from a small-scale study of volunteers in a Christian social action organization in the UK, we argue that a n…
African-American Perspectives on 9-11
In the past few years, terrorism has introduced most Americans to trauma on their own soil. However, African-Americans have lived through trauma and terrorism within the U.S. for centuries. African-Americans have very different perceptions of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon on September 11, 2001. Historical data reveal that African-Americans have endured various forms of domestic terrorism for hundreds of years. B…
Faithful Untidiness
Contemporary debates about faith and volunteering raise questions about the relationship between, on the one hand, claims from theological ethics about the sources and forms of Christian action in the world and, on the other hand, claims and assumptions in policy discourse about why people of faith undertake voluntary work. Using findings from a small-scale study of volunteers in a Christian social action organization in the UK, we argue that a n…
Are We Missing the Mark? The Implementation of Community Based Participatory Education in Cancer Disparities Curriculum Development
Variations on ‘the lonely walk’ in the films of Kathryn Bigelow
Kathryn Bigelow prioritises spatial relationships in narratives featuring groups of men in high-pressure, threatening situations. Bigelow foregrounds the inner, individual experiences of characters within ensembles and institutions, ‘the lonely walk’ affording a useful way to visualise the action of isolated characters in danger. Bigelow’s use of spatial relationships to convey the inner lives of characters is an unorthodox mode for action films.…
Neglecting physician desires to teach at an academic medical facility
PURPOSE: Recent findings have suggested that physicians who spend more time participating in their most meaningful job activities (e.g. teaching) are less likely to experience burnout. The current study aimed to expound upon this finding, focusing specifically on the role of teaching in promoting meaning and preventing burnout. METHOD: A total of 428 physicians at a large academic healthcare institution completed an online survey that included me…
The Fiery Furnaces
This article addresses the topic of “sound-based recollection” through the work of Matthew and Eleanor Friedberger, musicians best known as brother-sister rock duo The Fiery Furnaces. Though the Friedbergers work primarily within music and not literature or film, I argue that their music is literature, especially in the way Matthew's lyrics and Eleanor's performances of those lyrics engage with their personal memories, including their creative re…
Sleeping through The Big Lebowski
This paper examines incidents and themes of sleeping, dreaming, and resting within Joel and Ethan Coen's early filmography and their intensification in the 1998 feature film The Big Lebowski. These incidents and themes are also present, to some degree, in certain Raymond Chandler detective stories and adaptations thereof, which influenced The Big Lebowski. The Big Lebowski involves a convoluted mystery that prevents its characters, especially pro…
Beyond Failure in After Last Season
This article considers Mark Region’s 2009 film After Last Season as a work whose reputation as a critical and commercial failure masks the innovative approach to film form that its amateur director achieved with the film. After Last Season is a distinct type of failed film that seems entirely divorced from classical cinema techniques and conventions. The alienation that results from Region’s creative choices prevents the film from enjoying succes…
Sociology (4 works) · Art (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Cinema and Media Studies (2 works) · Medical education (2 works) · Narrative (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Philosophy (2 works) · Political science (2 works)