M. C. Gardner

M. C. Gardner is a playwright and cultural essayist. "Buddha Boogie, (The Tautological Paradigm)" is a structural analysis of western thought and eastern scripture. It demonstrates a nexus between the Jewish "Tanakh" , Vedanta's "Upanishads" and "Bhagavad Gita and Hua-Yen Buddhism's Gandavyuha Sutra and the 7th century's Chinese Patriarchs, Dushun and Fazang, dilations of its tautologies.

Under the auspices of playwrights "Donald Freed", "Harold Pinter", and "Ronald Harwood" he created the literary website AnotherAmerica.org and is a regular contributor to its pages. He is, with Donald Freed and Scott Chamberlin, a co-editor of "Another America, The Journal".

Plays

*"The Man from Lloyd's" Journal Lightning Source, Inc. http://anotheramerica.org/Eliot's_Breakdown.htm & http://anotheramerica.org/electric_therapy.htm
*"A Passion for Elvis Aron Presley" The Lost Studio, Hollywood CA May & July (2006) Featuring Dave Parke as Colonel Tom Parker

Cultural Analysis

*"Buddha Boogie, (The Tautological Paradigm)" Intro. & Chap 1 http://anotheramerica.org/buddha_boogie.htm
*"Buddha Boogie, (The Tautological Paradigm)" Chap. 3 http://anotheramerica.org/the_eyes_of_death.htm
*"Buddha Boogie, (The Tautological Paradigm)" Chap. 5 http://anotheramerica.org/Time_and_Proust.htm
*"Of Sons and Scions" (Henry Adams and George W. Bush at the inception of their respective centuries.) http://anotheramerica.org/M.C._Gardner's_Of_Sons_and_Scions.htm

Literary Essays

*Homer "The Maker" AnotherAmerica.org http://anotheramerica.org/M.C._Gardner's_Homer_Essays.htm
*Homer "Ilium's Distant Shores AnotherAmerica.org http://anotheramerica.org/homer_part_2.htm
*Homer "The Passion of a Queen" AnotherAmerica.org http://anotheramerica.org/homer_part_3.htm
*Homer "A Gathering of Shades" AnotherAmerica.org http://anotheramerica.org/homer_part_4.htm

*Plato "Shadow Dance" AnotherAmerica.org http://anotheramerica.org/plato.htm
*Shakespeare "As Any Stone" AnotherAmerica.org http://anotheramerica.org/M.C._Gardner's_Falstaff_Essay.htm
*Shakespeare "Othello" Lightning Source, Inc 2003 http://anotheramerica.org/M.C._Gardner's_Othello_Essay.htm
*Tolstoy "Life With Leo" http://anotheramerica.org/life_with_leo.htm
*Proust "Takes a Licking and..." Quantum Cotillion, Part 1, Buddha Boogie
*Mann "Crime and Will in Mann" http://anotheramerica.org/thomas_mann.htm

Biblical Essays

*Genesis "Mr. Jones" Part 2 Buddha Boogie http://anotheramerica.org/M.C._Gardner's_History_of_the_Bible.htm
*Book of Job "Pasteboard Masks" Part 2 Buddha Boogie http://anotheramerica.org/M.C._Gardner's_Job_Essay.htm
*Ecclesiastes and Isaiah "An Ancient Voice" Part 2 Buddha Boogie http://anotheramerica.org/Ecclesiastes_and_Isaiah.htm

Literary Criticism

*Donald Freed's "Patient #1":Apocalypse Nation http://www.anotheramerica.org/apocalypsenation.htm
*Harold Pinter's "War" Another America Journal, Lightning Source, Inc. 2003 http://anotheramerica.org/harold_pinter's_war.htm
*A.J. Langguth's "Jesus Christs" http://anotheramerica.org/Langguth's_Jesus_Christs_Review.htm
*Donald Freed's "Every Third House" AnotherAmerica.org Oct. 2005 http://anotheramerica.org/house_review.htm
*Leon Katz's "Classical Monologues" AnotherAmerica.org Nov. 2002
*J. Ferguson's Farley's Jewel "Facets of a Jewel" http://anotheramerica.org/Farley's_Jewel_Review.htm
*J. Ferguson's The Anthropologist Review http://anotheramerica.org/Jon_Ferguson's_The_Anthropologist.htm
*Aimee Liu's "Flash House" AnotherAmerica.org Dec. 2003 http://anotheramerica.org/flash_house.htm
*Ronald Harwood Photo Essay http://anotheramerica.org/ronald_harwood.htm
*Marc Germain Photo Essay http://anotheramerica.org/Marc_Germain_Returns.htm
*Jon Farris Photo Essay http://anotheramerica.org/jon_farris.htm

Theatrical Criticism

*Enrico Fink's "Lokshen--Patrilineare" Skirball Cultural Center March 2002
*"Donald Freed Plays" Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2003 http://anotheramerica.org/Freed_Plays_Overview.htm
*The White Crow" Intro. Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2003 http://anotheramerica.org/Crow_intro.htm
*The Devil's Advocate" Intro. Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2003 http://anotheramerica.org/M.C._Gardner%20Intro.htm
*How Shall We Be Saved" Intro. Broadway Play Publishing Inc. 2003 http://anotheramerica.org//How_Saved.htm
*Donald Freed's Adaptation of Tolstoy's The Death of Ivan Ilych http://anotheramerica.org/life_with_leo.htm
*Susan Hussey's "The Toxic Wave" University of Tampa Press

Art Criticism

*An Appreciation: The Art of Bruno Mascolo http://www.brunomascolo.com/home.html