Publications

Books
  • Floating Signifiers: Ocean Liners in Literature, Film, and Popular Culture.
    Albany: SUNY University Press. Anticipated Publication date: 2026.
    Interdisciplinary Study of Ocean Liners as Emblems of Modernity (Migration–Encampment–Tourism)
  • On Shoreless Sea: The MS St. Louis Refugee Ship in History, Film, and Popular Memory.
    Albany: SUNY University Press. Fall 2024.
    Interdisciplinary Study of the Historic Odyssey of the MS St. Louis and of St. Louis Memory Culture
  • Andy Warhol’s Blow Job
    Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2003.
    Interdisciplinary Study of Warhol’s Art and Films Read through Gay History, Queer Theory, Film Theory, Art Theory, and Cultural Studies
Edited Collections
  • Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2021 (Series Editor: Thomas Elsaesser)
    Co-edited with Gregory H. Williams and Peter J. Schwartz
  • Michael Haneke: Interviews
    Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020
    Collection of American and International Interviews with Michael Haneke
    Co-edited with Fatima Naqvi and Colin Root
  • Werner Schroeter. Vienna: Synema, 2018. Edited Collection/Conference Proceedings.
  • The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film, 4 Volumes Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2012
    Co-edited with Cynthia Lucia and Art Simon
    Volume I: Origins to 1928. 532 pp.
    Volume II: 1929-1945. 566 pp.
    Volume III: 1946-1975. 652 pp.
    Volume IV: 1976-present. 612 pp.
  • Extensively Revised Two-Volume Paperback:
    • American Film History: Selected Readings, Origins to 1960 (568pp.)
      Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2015
      Co-edited with Cynthia Lucia and Art Simon
    • American Film History: Selected Readings, 1960 to the Present (520pp.)
      Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2015
      Co-edited with Cynthia Lucia and Art Simon
  • A Companion to Michael Haneke.
    Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2010.
    625pp.

Articles and Reviews (Selection)
  • “One Shot, Two Mediums, Three Centuries,” in Grundmann, Williams, Schwartz eds., Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. Forthcoming 2021.
  • “A Cinema that Breathes,” in Scott MacDonald and Patricia Zimmerman eds., Flaherty Stories: Voices from the Robert Flaherty Seminar. Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 2021.
  • With Fatima Naqvi and Colin Root, “Introduction,” in Michael Haneke Interviews. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2020.
  • “The Passions of Werner Schroeter. An Introduction.” in Werner Schroeter. Vienna: Synema, 2018, pp. 7-57.
  • “‘A Quivering Tremor, A Vibration in Space’: Voicing Utopia in Poussieres d’amour—Abfallprodukte der Liebe (1996).” in Werner Schroeter. Vienna: Synema, 2018, pp. 159-177.
  • “The Discreet Harm of the Bourgeoisie,” Los Angeles Review of Books, February 2, 2018. Review essay of Michael Haneke’s Happy End (2017). https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-discreet-harm-of-the-bourgeoisie/
  • “Mehr als nur eine Geschmacksfrage. Über die widersprüchliche Valenz der Valente.” In Montage AV—Zeitschrift für Theorie und Geschichte audiovisueller Kommunikation. Vol. 26, No. 2 (2018), pp. 206-227.
  • “Cinema and Experience: Siegfried Kracauer, Walter Benjamin, and Theodor W. Adorno.” Cineaste Vol. XXXIX, No. 3 Summer 2014. pp. 74-76.
  • “Experimental Cinema and the Crystals of Time: Matthias Müller’s Visual Poems,” Millenium Film Journal, No. 58, Summer 2013, pp. 118-123.
  • The Tenderness of Scissors in Haircut
    (No. 1).
     Warhol in Ten Takes. Gary Needham and Glyn Davis eds. London: Palgrave MacMillan/BFI Publishing, 2013, pp. 67-83.
  • “Esthétiser l’injustice, dramatiser l’irréconciliable: les éléments lyotardiens chez Haneke. Fragments Du Monde: retour sur l’oeuvre de Michael Haneke. Valérie Carré ed. Paris: Le Bord De L’Eau, 2012, pp. 141-162.
  • “Gender, Genre, and Hollywood Labor in The Strange Love of Martha Ivers.” The Wiley-Blackwell History of American Film. Cynthia Lucia, Roy Grundmann, Art Simon Co-editors. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Pp. 595-629.
  • Querelle’s Finality.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to Rainer Werner Fassbinder. Brigitte Peucker ed. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
  • “Der Dampfer im Film.” Motive im Film: Ein Kasuistischer Fischzug. Christine Noll Brinckmann and Britta Hartmann eds. Marburg: Schueren, 2011. Pp. 62-70.
  • “Painting Pointing Past Itself: Heterogeneity and Contingency in The Fulbright Triptych.” The Suspension of Time: Reflections on Simon Dinnerstein and the Fulbright Triptych. Daniel Slager ed. Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2011. Pp. 156-173.
  • “Kunst und Schmuddel: Andy Warhols Porno Pop. Porno Pop II: Im Erregungs-dispositiv. Joerg Metelmann ed. Wuerzburg: Verlag Koenigshausen und Neumann, 2010. Pp. 273-290.
  • “Introduction: Haneke’s Anachronism,” A Companion to Michael Haneke. Roy Grundmann ed. Malden, Mass. and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2010, pp. 1-50.
  • “Between Adorno and Lyotard: Michael Haneke’s Aesthetic of Fragmentation,” A Companion to Michael Haneke. Roy Grundmann ed. Malden, Mass., and Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2010, pp. 374-419.
  • “Michael Haneke’s Subversive Games,” The Chronicle of Higher Education, Vol. 54, No. 25, February 29, 2008, pp.B14-15
  • “Populist Motifs in John Ford’s Films.”John Ford in Focus: Essays on the Filmmaker’s Life and Work. Kevin Stoehr and Michael C. Connolly eds. Jefferson, NC, and London: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, 2008. pp. 187—204.
  • “Auteur de Force: “Michael Haneke’s Cinema of Glaciation.” Cineaste Vol. 33, no. 2 (Spring 2007), pp. 3-9.
  • “Old Europe Shows New Media Art” Afterimage, Vol. 34, nos. 1-2 Special Issue on Media Arts Activism (Fall 2006), pp. 3-4.
  • Brokeback Mountain Cineaste Vol. 31, no. 1 (Spring 2006), pp. 65-67.
  • “Queer Media Pedagogy: A Roundtable Discussion,” Terri Ginsberg ed. GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies Vol. 12, no. 1 (Winter 2006), pp. 117-134. Written Contrib. To Roundtable Discussion.
  • “Gay-Themed Films of the German Silent Era.” Cineaste Vol. 30, no. 4 (Winter 2005), pp. 72-75
  • “Subtitles: On the Foreignness of Film,” Cineaste Vol. 30, no. 3 (Fall 2005), 48-50.
  • “Too Darn Hot: Kinsey and the Culture Wars.” Cineaste Vol. 30, no. 2 (Spring 2005), pp. 4-10.
  • “Masters of Ceremony: Media Demonstration as Performance in Three Instances of Expanded Cinema.” The Velvet Light Trap no. 54 (Fall 2004), pp. 48-64.
  • “Los Angeles Plays Itself.” Cineaste Vol. 30, no. 1 (Winter 2004), p. 80.
  • “White Man’s Burden: Eminem’s Movie Debut in 8 Mile,”in White Noise: The Eminem Collection. Hilton Als and Darryl F. Turner eds. New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2003. PP. 111-128. Reprinted from Cineaste 28:1 (Spring 2003).
  • “Dual Screen Projection” Lexikon derFilmbegriffe des Bender Verlages (on line). Hans J. Wulff und Theo Bender eds. Mainz: Theo Bender Verlag, 2003.German 
Language Encyclopedia Entry on Dual Screen Projection.