Faculty Bookshelf
Acts of Love: Black Performance and the Kiss That Changed Film History
University of California Press, 2026
Transmedia Stories: Narrative Methods for Public Health and Social Justice
Stanford University Press, 2023
The Lure of the Image: Epistemic Fantasies of the Moving Camera
University of California Press, 2021
Experimental Games: Critique, Play, and Design in the Age of Gamification
University of Chicago Press, 2020
The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media
University of Minnesota Press, 2018
Greek Art and Archaeology: A New History, c. 2500-c. 150 BCE, Second Edition
Thames and Hudson, 2018
Uplift Cinema: The Emergence of African American Film & The Possibility of Black Modernity
Duke University Press, 2015
Le Court métrage documentaire français de 1945 à 1968: Créations et créateurs
*co-edited with Philippe Pilard; Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009
The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation
University of Minnesota Press, 2009
Afterimages of Gilles Deleuze’s Film Philosophy*
University of Minnesota Press, 2009
The Russian Prospero: The Creative Universe of Viacheslav Ivanov
University of Wisconsin Press, 2006
Le Court métrage documentaire français de 1945 à 1968: De l'âge d'or aux contrebandiers
*co-edited with François Thomas; Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2005
Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun'ichirô on Cinema and "Oriental" Aesthetics
U of M Center for Japanese Studies, 2005
Reading the Figural, or, Philosophy after the New Media
Duke University Press, 2001
Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription
Duke University Press, 2000
Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal
Princeton University Press, 1998
The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Criticism
University of California Press, 1988
