Faculty Bookshelf

The Process Genre: Cinema and the Aesthetic of Labor
Duke University Press, 2020

Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
University of California Press, 2019

Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons
University of California Press, 2019

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

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
University of California Press, 2015

L.A. Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema
University of California Press, 2015

The Parisian Avant-Garde in the Age of Cinema, 1900-1923
University of California Press, 2015

An Archaeology of Sympathy: The Sentimental Mode in Literature and Cinema
UC Press, 2013

Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture
The New Press, 2011

Adventures in Soviet Imagery: Children's Books and Graphic Art
University of Chicago Library, 2011

Le Court métrage documentaire français de 1945 à 1968: Créations et créateurs
*co-edited with Philippe Pilard; Presses Universitaires de Rennes, 2009

Marriage and Modernity: Family Values in Colonial Bengal
Duke University 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

Migrating to the Movies: Cinema and Black Urban Modernity
University of California Press, 2005

Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription
Duke University Press, 2000

England in 1819: The Politics of Literary Culture and the Case of Romantic Historicism
UC Press, 1999

Richard Wagner, Fritz Lang, and the Nibelungen: The Dramaturgy of Disavowal
Princeton University Press, 1998

Questions of Evidence: Proof, Practice, and Persuasion Across the Disciplines
UC Press, 1993

The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference, and Film Theory
Routledge, 1991

The Crisis of Political Modernism: Criticism and Ideology in Contemporary Film Criticism
University of California Press, 1988