https://www.mikemiley.com/bio daily 0.75 2017-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1530827653468-QYMDRFHDPJH7C5CG5J64/leaud+lecture+1.jpg Bio https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1533605592358-Q3N4O30RLL5FHHCQK5NY/IMG_0052.jpg Bio https://www.mikemiley.com/images daily 0.75 2017-01-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1481292322256-G5TOFKJ6OEGH36ZY47IK/image-asset.jpeg images - The Face of Cult A video essay on cult cinema. Originally published on Moving Image Source. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1481292322256-G5TOFKJ6OEGH36ZY47IK/image-asset.jpeg images - The Face of Cult A video essay on cult cinema. Originally published on Moving Image Source. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/584968b3440243554c5c2aa7/584aba228eaa89ba371b044a/1481206142112/ images - The Face of Cult A video essay on cult cinema. Originally published on Moving Image Source. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1481206014178-EL5SVZ5B13FOV4BQL27F/image-asset.jpeg images - The Face of Cult A video essay on cult cinema. Originally published on Moving Image Source. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1481208993769-KQXSOITV4KFNA39IJABJ/image-asset.jpeg images - The Red Bow A short film I adapted and directed in 2004 for Esquire Magazine's Celluloid Style competition. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/584968b3440243554c5c2aa7/584968fd14fd83b67073463a/1481205975046/ images https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1481292510228-MI2XQ10H2H2PY7Y50KO5/image-asset.jpeg images - Surface Calm A short film I adapted and directed in 2001. https://static1.squarespace.com/static/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/584968b3440243554c5c2aa7/584b20a3c534a5e1fdbf5086/1483646768093/ images - The Bug Man available on iTunes. https://www.mikemiley.com/books daily 0.75 2019-06-27 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561651085711-5XMOS27T49JRQGSHCNNV/book+cover.jpg Books https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561651085711-5XMOS27T49JRQGSHCNNV/book+cover.jpg Books https://www.mikemiley.com/work daily 1.0 2026-03-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561664289607-15J1C9MFASH9SQ64PN18/mami.JPG Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561664715444-25PWLAHXJ80JKJGAF9MU/public%2Bwriting.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561665848628-ZYKDTI1P5BBXXT8CVPDK/Miley+2.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561683634016-2VNLUUF9YAEF1HRDXQWJ/wip.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561685115026-9WDU0U2MBSTC44U5LXSA/dfw.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561686091342-T20V0MJ2E7ZM1QUKY4UV/dfw+mla.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561651985352-8GOV0DEA92HR4DHX2EKX/book+cover.jpg Work Although nearly every other television form or genre has undergone a massive critical and popular reassessment or resurgence in the past twenty years, the game show’s reputation has remained both remarkably stagnant and remarkably low. Scholarship on game shows concerns itself primarily with the history and aesthetics of the form, and few works assess the influence the format has had on American society or how the aesthetics and rhythms of contemporary life model themselves on the aesthetics and rhythms of game shows. In Truth and Consequences: Game Shows in Fiction and Film, author Mike Miley seeks to broaden the conversation about game shows by studying how they are represented in fiction and film. Writers and filmmakers find the game show to be the ideal metaphor for life in a media-saturated era, from selfhood to love to family to state power. The book is divided into “rounds,” each chapter looking at different themes that books and movies explore via the game show. By studying over two dozen works of fiction and film―bestsellers, blockbusters, disasters, modern legends, forgotten gems, award winners, self-published curios, and everything in between―Truth and Consequences argues that game shows offer a deeper understanding of modern-day America, a land of high-stakes spectacle where a game-show host can become president of the United States. Purchase from University Press of Mississippi Purchase from Barnes and Noble Purchase from Amazon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561654221094-6GNXP74KJ7VUI5NA0LBY/face+of+cult+still.jpg Work - The Face of Cult A video essay produced in 2011 for Moving Image Source. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1606613953285-D0KRTCMSNTE6Z90M8M8Y/Cover.jpg Work Much like his novels, Steve Erickson (b. 1950) exists on the periphery of our perception, a shadow figure lurking on the margins, threatening to break through, but never fully emerging. Despite receiving prestigious honors, Erickson has remained a subterranean literary figure, receiving effusive praise from his fans, befuddled or cautious assessments from reviewers, and scant scholarly attention. Erickson’s obscurity comes in part from the difficulty of categorizing his work within current trends in fiction, and in part from the wide variety of concerns that populate his writing: literature, music, film, politics, history, time, and his fascination with his home city of Los Angeles. His dream-fueled blend of European modernism, American pulp, and paranoid late-century postmodernism makes him essential to an appreciation of the last forty years of American fiction but difficult to classify neatly within that same realm. He is at once thoroughly of his time and distinctly outside it. In these twenty-four interviews Erickson clarifies how his aesthetic and political visions are inextricable from each other. He diagnoses the American condition since World War II, only to reveal that America’s triumphs and failures have been consistent since its inception—and that he presciently described decades ago certain features of our present. Additionally, the interviews expose the remarkable consistency of Erickson’s vision over time while simultaneously capturing the new threads that appear in his later fiction as they emerge in his thought. Conversations with Steve Erickson will deepen readers’ understanding of how Erickson’s books work—and why this utterly singular writer deserves greater attention. Purchase from The University Press of Mississippi Purchase from Barnes and Noble Purchase from Amazon https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1684859531764-1H42QK0EXVU79S0HZLET/IMG_3445%2B%25282%2529.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/9274dd55-a46c-4221-8abb-7d5b70ea3fb7/IMG_7273.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/174c7860-8fae-4bf2-8f09-9a648322e866/Copy+of+Final+Draft+FB+EC+%281%29+%281%29.png Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1736373815124-8TRSUEWWAITK1XZBV98D/image-asset.jpeg Work “Like a David Lynch film itself, Miley’s book is frequently unexpected, sometimes startling, wholly absorbing, and a superb testament to the virtues of lateral thinking.” —Michael Brooke, Sight and Sound “Miley puts David Lynch’s films in conversation with literature and music, forging thrilling and unexpected connections—between Eraserhead and ‘The Yellow Wallpaper,’ Inland Empire and ‘mixtape aesthetics,’ Lynch and the work of Cormac McCarthy. Lynch devotees should run, not walk.” —Sophia M. Stewart, The Millions “In David Lynch's American Dreamscape, Mike Miley presents a fascinating new approach to Lynch's films, treating their intertextuality in a way that expands rather than restricts our understanding of them. Miley adroitly connects literary, filmic, and musicological perspectives in an analytical approach that will prove invaluable and accessible to scholars from many fields in their study of Lynch, one of our most idiosyncratic American filmmakers. Following Lynch himself, Miley's book gives us more 'room to dream' around the filmmaker's work.” ―Katherine M. Reed, Associate Professor of Musicology, California State University, Fullerton, USA, and co-editor of Music in Twin Peaks: Listen to the Sounds (2021) “… this academic work exploring Lynch’s influences in cinema, music and literature will offer some solace and insights to film nerds who vibed with Lynch’s uniquely off-kilter, dreamlike cinematic vision.” —Paul Constant, Seattle Times “Miley demonstrates the strange and powerful way Lynch tapped into the human experience and the broader American pop landscape.” —Jason Woodbury, Aquarium Drunkard https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561683600823-UYELRYFYZYL2JJXLL6VU/wip.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561685161650-OQ03OSVJIPQE21J6TTP1/dfw.jpg Work Logo by Chris Ayers https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1561681723911-LC1Z5RLSMGJ2WXG6AY00/mami.jpg Work https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/8a5bee54-c50d-496a-a69d-bbc436a1bcf7/Copy+of+Final+Draft+FB+EC+%281%29+%281%29.png Work - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://www.mikemiley.com/contact daily 0.75 2016-12-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/1530828249901-1ZT0CO297QS83FK5ZRDD/leaud+lecture+2.jpg Contact https://www.mikemiley.com/words daily 0.75 2018-07-05 https://www.mikemiley.com/contact-1 daily 0.75 2025-01-30 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/7430e2f6-a415-4320-a185-3c3bff6b1710/IMG_4885.jpg Contact - Contact mike for information about publications, current projects, and speaking engagements, or to say hi, please complete the form below or try mikecmiley [at] gmail [dot] com. https://www.mikemiley.com/about daily 0.75 2025-02-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58403a8f1b631b9469ec5a14/7313c928-4419-48d4-8372-be8082a58b5f/IMG_4933+-+Copy.jpg About Photo by Nia Rincon