PUBLICATIONS
Books
2017 Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies (Oxford University Press)
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2012 Learning with the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States (Oxford University Press)
2008 Hollywood Ambitions: Celebrity in the Movie Age (Wesleyan University Press)
Journalistic Articles
October 2018, “Brett Kavanaugh goes to the movies,” The Conversation.
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August 2018, “A Double Feature: Sam Fuller’s The Steel Helmet and Stanley
Kubrick’s Fear and Desire.” Cineaste (fall 2018): 32-35.
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March 2018, "#MeToo on the 1930s Silver Screen."
Related ABC Radio Sydney discussion for International Woman's Day.
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Jan 2018, "Is it Time for a 21st Century Version of 'The Day After'?"
Academic Minute (radio) version (March 2018)
On the Media podcast discussion (February 2018)
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Oct 2017, Blade Runner's Chilling Prescient Vision of the Future
Book Chapters
“Multi-Purposing Early Cinema: A Psychological Experiment Involving Van Bibber’s Experiment (Thomas Edison, 1911).” Beyond the Screen: Institutions, Networks and Publics of Early Cinema, edited by Marta Braun, Charlie Keil, Rob King, Paul Moore, and Louis Pelletier. UK: John Libbey Press, 2012. 153-160.
“GI’s Documenting Genocide: Amateur Films of WWII Concentration Camps.” Film and Genocide, edited by Tomas Crowder and Kristi Wilson. University of Wisconsin Press, 2012. 170-186.
“A History of Learning with the Lights Off.” Co-written with Dan Streible and Devin Orgeron. Learning With the Lights Off: Educational Film in the United States. Co-edited with Dan Streible and Devin Orgeron. Oxford University Press, 2012. 15-66.
“‘A Decent and Orderly Society’: Race Relations in Riot-Era Educational Films, 1966-1970.” Learning With the Lights Off. Co-edited with Dan Streible and Devin Orgeron. Oxford University Press, 2012. 424-441.
“The History of Media Celebrity.” Ed. Robert Kolker. The Oxford Handbook of Film and Media Studies. New York: Oxford University Press, August 2008. 187-223.
“Megatronic Memories: Errol Morris and the Aesthetics of Observation.” Co-written with Devin Orgeron. The Image and the Witness. Eds. Frances Guerin and Roger Hallas. London:Wallflower Press, 2007. 238-252.
Articles
"3mm, The Smallest Gauge." Co-written with Dino Everett (University of Southern California). The Moving Image, 16.2 (fall 2016): 1-20.
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“The Other Side of the Tracks: Nontheatrical Film History, Pre-Rebellion Watts, and Felicia.” Co-written with Allyson Nadia Field (U Chicago). Cinema Journal, 55.2 (February 2016): 1-24.
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“Hettie Gray Baker.” Jane Gaines, Radha Vatsal, and Monica Dall’Asta, eds. Women Film Pioneers Project. 2013.
“Lenticular Spectacles: Kodacolor’s Fit in the Amateur Arsenal.” Film History. Winter 2013: 36-61.
“‘You are Invited to Participate’: Interactive Fandom in the Age of the Movie Magazine.” Journal of Film and Video. Fall 2009: 3-23.
“Familial Pursuits, Editorial Acts: Documentaries After the Age of Home Video.” Co-written with Devin Orgeron. The Velvet Light Trap. Fall 2007: 47-62.
“‘The Most Profound Shock’: Traces of The Holocaust in Sam Fuller’s Verboten! and The Big Red One.” The Historical Journal of Radio Film and Television. October 2007: 471-496.
“‘Something Different In Science Films’: The Moody Institute of Science and the Canned Missionary Movement.” Co-written with Skip Elsheimer. The Moving Image. Spring 2007: 1-26.
“Liberating Images?: Sam Fuller’s Film of Falkenau Concentration Camp.” Film Quarterly. Winter 2006: 38-47.
“Making It in Hollywood: Clara Bow, Fandom, and Consumer Culture.” Cinema Journal. Summer 2003: 76-97.
“Rethinking Authorship: Jack London and the Motion Picture Industry.” American Literature. March 2003: 91-117.
"Eating Their Words: Consuming Class a la Keaton and Chaplin." With Devin Orgeron. College Literature.January 2001: 84-104.
“‘What Makes a Girl Who Looks Like That Get Mixed Up In Science?’: Gender in Sam Fuller’s Films of the 1950s.” Quarterly Review of Film & Video. 2000: 1-17.
"Onward Kitchen Soldiers: Mobilizing the Domestic During WWI." The Canadian Review of American Studies. 1999: 61-87.
"Cinematic Violations in Peter Greenaway's The Baby of Mâcon." Enculturation. Spring 1998.