PUBLICATIONS
Books
2017 Film is Like a Battleground: Sam Fuller's War Movies (Oxford University Press)
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.
August 2018, “A Double Feature: Sam Fuller’s The Steel Helmet and Stanley
Kubrick’s Fear and Desire.” Cineaste (fall 2018): 32-35.
March 2018, "#MeToo on the 1930s Silver Screen."
Related ABC Radio Sydney discussion for International Woman's Day.
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)
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.
“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.
“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.