Film Quarterly Columns
“Dream Scenario and Postcinematic Celebrity,” Film Quarterly 77:4 (Summer 2024): 66-71.
“Greta Gerwig’s Girlhood Trilogy,” Film Quarterly 77: 2 (Winter 2023): 67-72.
“Empowerment By Design: On Not Depicting Sexual Assault in Film,” Film Quarterly 76:4 (Summer 2023): 67-72.
“An Urgent Legacy: Television, Liveness, and the January 6 Hearings.” Film Quarterly 76:2 (Winter 2022): 93-97.
“Film and the Right to Privacy.” Film Quarterly 75:4 (Summer 2022): 58-63.
“The Ennui of the Scroll,” Film Quarterly 75:2 (Winter 2021): 84-88.
“Listening to Metal.” Film Quarterly 74:4 (Summer 2021)
"How I May Destroy You Reinvents Rape Television.” Film Quarterly 74:2 (Winter 2021): 100-105.
“In Praise of Escapism.” Film Quarterly 74:1 (Fall 2020): 75-79.
“Race, Rage, and Genre Revisionism,” Film Quarterly 73:2 (Winter 2019): 66-71.
“Spirits of Cinema,” Film Quarterly 73:1 (Fall 2019): 68-72.
“Watching Without a Rope,” Film Quarterly 72:4 (Summer 2019): 68-73.
“They’re Coming to Get You…” Film Quarterly 72:2 (Winter 2018): 71-76.
“What It Means to Be High Maintenance,” Film Quarterly 71:4 (Summer 2018): 52-57.
“‘No Such Thing Not Yet’: Questioning Television’s Female Gaze.” Film Quarterly 71:2 (Winter 2017): 70-77.
“Telling Her Story.” Film Quarterly 70:4 (Summer 2017): 88-92.
“Learning From Horror.” Film Quarterly 70:2 (Winter 2016): 58-62.
“Questioning Causality, Climax, and Closure.” Film Quarterly 67:1 (Fall 2013): 52-54.
“Made for Quality Television?” Film Quarterly 66:4 (Summer 2013): 5-9.
“An Illusion Appropriate to the Conditions.” Film Quarterly 66:3 (Spring 2013): 61-63.
“Conversion and Culture Shock.” Film Quarterly 66:2 (Winter 2012): 48-51.
“Dangerous Illusions.” Film Quarterly 65:4 (Summer 2012): 10-11. Reprinted in Writing: 10 Key Concepts, ed. Robert P. Yagelski (Boston: Cengage Learning, 2017), 273-275.
“Generic Imperative.” Film Quarterly 65:3 (Spring 2012): 12-13.
“Out of Sight.” Film Quarterly 65:2 (Winter 2011): 14-15.
“Slants of Light.” Film Quarterly 65:1 (Fall 2011): 10-11.
“Cinema’s New Appendages.” Film Quarterly 64:4 (Summer 2011): 10-11.
“The Algorithmic Spectator.” Film Quarterly 64:3 (Spring 2011): 55-58.
“Standard Operating Procedure: Mediating Torture.” Film Quarterly 62:4 (Fall 2009): 39-44.
“Grindhouse: An Experiment in the Death of Cinema.” Film Quarterly 62:1 (Fall 2008): 20-24. Winner of the Film Quarterly 50th Anniversary Review Essay Competition.
Reviews, Short Articles, and Other Writing
“Promising Young Woman Confuses Viewers. That’s What Makes It Brilliant.” Washington Post, April 24, 2021.
“Books in Conversation: Discorrelated Images,” interview with Shane Denson, ASAP-J, February 25, 2021.
“A Feminist Critiques Movies By and About White Men—But Why?” Book Review. Washington Post, December 4, 2020.
“Cult Conversations: Interview with Caetlin Benson-Allott,” with William Proctor, Confessions of an Aca-Fan, November 28, 2018.
“The Oscars Have Always Been Crass.” Washington Post, August 9, 2018. Reprinted in the Kansas City Star and the UAE Gulf News.
“Editors’ Introduction.” Cinema Journal 57:4 (Summer 2018): 1-2.
“‘I Just Expect There to Be Some Trouble’: Boyz N the Hood and the Racialization of Cinema Violence.” FLOW: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture 23:2 (Winter 2017).
“The Defining Feature of George Romero’s Zombie Movies Wasn’t Their Zombies. It Was Their Brains.” Slate, July 18, 2017.
“A So-Called ‘Agent of Chaos’: James Eagan Holmes, Theater Violence, and the Myth of White Exceptionalism.” FLOW: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture 23:3 (Spring 2017).
“Confessions of a Platform Agnostic, or Film Criticism after Film.” Film Criticism 40:1 (Winter 2016).
“‘Warriors, Come Out to Play’: Considering the Role of Films in Moral Panics About Cinema Violence.” FLOW: A Critical Forum on Television and Media Culture 23:1 (Fall 2016).
“RIP to the VCR.” Interview by Jacob Brogan. Slate. July 22, 2016.
“Suspending Suspense.” In Media Res: A MediaCommons Project. February 23, 2016.
“Wes Craven: In Memoriam.” Film Quarterly 69:2 (Winter 2015): 74-76.
“Editor’s Introduction: Special Issue on Materialisms.” Feminist Media Histories 1:3 (Summer 2015): 1-3.
“How the Remote Control Rewired the Home.” The Atlantic Online (August 1, 2014).
“A Sinister Forecast?” In Media Res: A Media Commons Project. November 18, 2013.
“Tick Tick Blu.” In Media Res: A MediaCommons Project. March 26, 2010.