Selected Publications
Books
The Invention of Robert Bresson: The Auteur and His Market (Indiana UP, 2017)
Articles and Reviews
"Roger Leenhardt's World, Viewed: Rethinking Colonial Film and French Realist Film Theory in 1930s France." French Screen Studies (June 2021): 1-23. (Download Article)
"Bresson and the Bounds of History." Discourse 43.1 (Winter 2021): 177-183. (Download Article)
"She-Ra and the Principles of Threaded Media Storytelling." Animation Studies 2.0. July 23, 2020. (Download Article)
"Robert Bresson." In Oxford Bibliographies Online in Cinema and Media Studies. (Download Article)
"Realism's New Horizons: Roger Leenhardt’s Theoretical Shift after Trois portraits d’un oiseaux qui n’existe pas/Three Portraits of a Bird that Doesn’t Exist (Robert Lapojade, 1963)." Studies in French Cinema (2018): 1-21. (Download Article)
"French Film at the Turn of the Century: Spectacles de curiosité." Spectacle and Leisure in Paris: Degas to Mucha. Ed. Elizabeth Childs. Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, 2017. 40-51. (Download Article)
"Under the Auspices of Simplicity: Roger Leenhardt's New Realism and the Aesthetic History of Objectif 49," Film History 27.2 (2015): 33-75. (Download Article)
"The 'Albert Maltz Affair' and the Debate Over Para-Marxist Formalism in New Masses, 1945-6." Journal of American Studies (2013): 1-28. (Download Article)
"Perspectivism versus Realism." In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory, edited by Edward Branigan and Warren Buckland. London: Routledge, 2013.
"Vulgar Auteurism: Out with the New, In with the Old." Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture (June 2013): http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/06/11/vulgar-auteurism-out-with-the-new-in-with-the-old/.
"Transnational Auteurism and the Cultural Dynamics of Influence: Mani Kaul's 'Non-Representational' Cinema." Transnational Cinemas 4.1 (April 2013): 3-24. (Download Article)
"Cinema(s) of Quality." In Directory of World Cinema: France, edited by Tim Palmer and Charlie Michael, 140-148. Bristol, UK: Intellect, 2012.
"Hidden Hands at Work: Authorship, the Intentional Flux, and the Dynamics of Collaboration." In A Companion to Media Authorship, edited by Jonathan Gray and Derek Johnson, 112-132. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. (Download Article)
“Bresson in the 1930s: Photography, Cinema, Milieu." (Download Article) In Robert Bresson Revised, edited by James Quandt, 202-225. Toronto: TIFF, 2012.
“Arnheim on Style History.” In Arnheim for Film and Media Studies, edited by Scott Higgins, 229-247. New York: Routledge, 2010. (Download Article)
“A New Look at the Concept of Style in Film: The Origins and Development of the Problem-Solution Model.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 6.2 (August 2008): 127- 149.
“Muting the Image: Lighting and Photo-Chemical Techniques of Bresson’s Cinematographers.” Studies in French Cinema 6.3 (2006): 219-230.
"In Search of the Pictorial Intelligence." Antenna: Responses to Media and Culture (December 2013) (Download Article)