Academic Articles and Book Chapters

“Temporal Dispersions of Disgust: or, Reconceiving Genre Through Direct-to-Video Horror.” Television & New Media 24: 5 (Summer 2023): 499-509.

“Contesting the White Gaze: Black Film and Post-Cinematic Spectatorship,” in The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, ed. Kyle Stevens (New York: Oxford University Press, 2022), 447-467.

“Shot in Black and White: The Racialized History of Cinema Violence.” In Ends of Cinema, ed. Richard Grusin and Jocelyn Szczepaniak-Gillece (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2020), 107-132.

“The minor Cronenberg.” The New Review of Film and Television Studies 15:2 (Spring 2017): 152-161.

“Platform.” In Debugging Game History: A Lexicon, ed. Raiford Guines and Henry Lowood (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2016), 343-350.

“Dreadful Architectures: Zones of Intensity in Alien and Lee Bontecou’s Wall Sculpture.” Journal of Visual Culture 15:1 (Winter 2015): 267-278.

“Paradoxes of the Heart: The Philosophy of Horror Twenty-Five Years Later.” Interview with Noël Carroll. Journal of Visual Culture 15:1 (Winter 2015): 336-343.

“Looking for Looking for Mr. Goodbar: Or, Strategies for Sitting with the Abject Archive.” Feminist Media Histories 1:3 (Fall 2015): 127-162.

“Old Tropes in New Dimensions: Stereoscopy and Franchise Spectatorship.” Film Criticism 37:3 (Spring/Fall 2013): 12-29.

“Going Gaga for Glitch: Digital Failure and Feminist Spectacle in Twenty-First Century Music Video.” In The Oxford Handbook of Sound and Image in Digital Media, ed. Amy Herzog, John Richardson, and Carol Vernallis (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013), 127-139.

“The Queer Fat of Philip Seymour Hoffman.” In Millennial Masculinity: Men in Contemporary American Cinema, ed. Timothy Shary (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2012), 391-430.

“The Chora Line: RealD Incorporated.” South Atlantic Quarterly 110:3 (2011): 621-644. Reprinted in Post-Cinema: Theorizing 21st-Century Film, ed. Julia Leyda and Shane Denison (Sussex: Reframe, 2016).

“Undoing Violence: Politics, Genre, and Duration in Kathryn Bigelow’s Cinema.” Film Quarterly 64:2 (Winter 2010): 33-43.

 “Sex Versus the Small Screen: Home Video Censorship and Alfonso Cuarón’s Y tu mamá también.” Jump Cut 51 (Spring 2009).

“Camp Integration: The Uses and Misuses of Nostalgia in John Waters’ Hairspray.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 26:4 (Spring 2009): 143-154.

“VCR Autopsy.” Journal of Visual Culture 6:2 (August 2007): 175-181.

“‘Before You Die, You See The Ring’: Notes on the Imminent Obsolescence of VHS.” Jump Cut 49 (Spring 2007). Reprinted in The Scary Screen: Media Anxiety in The Ring, ed. Kristen Lacefield (Burlington: Ashgate, 2010), 115-140.

“The ‘Mechanical Truth’ behind Cruel Intentions: Desire, AIDS, and the MTV Movie Awards’ ‘Best Kiss.’” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 22:4 (Winter 2005): 341-358.