Home Movies
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Home Movies is an essay about the day-to-day realities and unrealities of its author’s hypermediated consumer life as a teacher and parent in Orlando, Florida. In each of the essay’s seven sections, Wheaton explores his relationships to new media and old tech, and the people around him, with thoughtful ambivalence and humor. Altogether, the various threads of Home Movies—image, tangibility, fame, nostalgia, simulation, marijuana, and cinema history—pull together into a moving attempt to accept the tensions between watching/being watched and life/art.
Michael Wheaton
Michael Wheaton, PhD, received his PhD in clinical psychology from UNC-Chapel Hill, and completed his postdoctoral training in the Center for OCD and Related Disorders at the New York State Psychiatric Institute/Columbia University Medical Center. He is currently assistant professor of psychology at Barnard College. His research has received grant funding from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), IOCDF, America Psychological Foundation, and Association for Psychological Science.
Wheaton has previously worked as a study therapist in National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH)-funded clinical trials utilizing cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) for OCD, and also runs a small private practice focused on OCD and related disorders (including OCPD) in New York, NY.
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