Publications

Book

Main Street Movies: The History of Local Films in the United States. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.

Peer-Reviewed Articles

The Theatre or the Schoolhouse?: The Social Center, the Model Picture Show, and the Logic of Counter-attractions. Film History 29, No. 4 (2017), 1-31.

The Well Lighted Theater or the Semi-Darkened Room?: Transparency, Opacity, and Participation in the Institution of Cinema. 2014. Early Popular Visual Culture 12, No. 2 (2014), 199-212.

 ‘An Added Bonus’: Local Films, Local Newsreels and the Strand News in Warsaw, Indiana (1938–1955), Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television 32, No. 3 (2012), 401-417.

The Places You’ll Know: From Self-Recognition to Place Recognition in the Local Film,The Moving Image 10, No. 1 (2010), 24-50.