On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology (editor). New York University Press, 1999.

Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion (co-edited with Carl Plantinga). Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999.
 
 

“Reflecting on the Image:  Sartrean Emotions in the Writings of Andre Bazin,”  Film and Philosophy 10 (2006).

"Serial Narrative and Guest Stars: Ally McBeal's Eccentrics," in The Contemporary Television Series, edited by Lucy Mazdon and Michael Hammond (Edinburgh University Press, 2005). (PDF version)

"Passersby and Politics: City of Hope and the Multiple Protagonist Film," in Sayles Talk: Essays on Independent Filmmaker John Sayles, edited by Diane Carson and Heidi Kenaga (Wayne State University Press, 2005). (PDF version)

"Moving Explosions: Metaphors of Emotion in Sergei Eisenstein's Writings," Quarterly Review of Film and Video 21.4 (October-November 2004). (PDF version)

"Country Cookin’ and Cross-Dressin’: Television, Southern Masculinities, and Hierarchies of Cultural Taste," (with Pamela Wilson), Television and New Media 5:3 (August 2004).  (PDF version)

"The Left Takes Back the Flag: The Steadicam, the Snippet, and the Song in The West Wing’s ‘In Excelsis Deo,’" in The West Wing: The American Presidency as Television Drama, edited by Peter C. Rollins and John E. O’Connor (Syracuse University Press, 2003).

"Navigating Myst-y Landscapes: Utopian Discourses and Hybrid Media," in Hop on Pop: The Pleasures and Politics of Popular Culture, edited by Henry Jenkins, Jane Shattuc, and Tara McPherson (Duke University Press, 2003). (PDF version)

"Computer Games Have Words, Too: Dialogue Conventions in Final Fantasy VII,"Game Studies 2.2 (December 2002): www.gamestudies.org.

"Critical Reception of Rashomon in the West," Asian Cinema 13.2 (Fall/Winter 2002). (PDF version)

"Choosing Silence: Robert DeNiro and the Celebrity Interview," in Stars in Our Eyes: The Star Phenomenon in the Contemporary Era, edited by Angela Ndalianis and Charlotte Henry (Praeger, 2002). (PDF version)

"Streisand Shops the Museum Store: Consuming Art on Television," Journal of Popular Film and Television 30.1 (Spring 2002). (PDF version)

"It’s Just a Movie: A Teaching Essay for Introductory Media Classes," Cinema Journal 41.1 (Fall 2001). (PDF version)

"Shaping The Maxx: Adapting the Comic Book Frame to Television," Animation Journal 8.1 (Fall 1999).  (PDF version)

"’To Waste More Time, Click Here Again:’ Monty Python and the Quest for the Film/CD-ROM Adaptation"   (PDF version) and "A Few Words on Interactivity," (PDF version) in On a Silver Platter: CD-ROMs and the Promises of a New Technology, edited by Greg M. Smith (New York University Press, 1999).

"Local Emotions, Global Moods: The Emotion System and Film Structure" and "Introduction" (with Carl Plantinga), in Passionate Views: Film, Cognition, and Emotion, edited by Carl Plantinga and Greg M. Smith (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1999).

"Blocking Blockade: Partisan Protest, Popular Debate, and Encapsulated Texts," Cinema Journal 36.1 (Fall 1996).  (PDF version)

"Silencing the New Woman: Ethnic and Social Mobility in the Melodramas of Norma Talmadge,"Journal of Film and Video 48.3 (Fall 1996).  (PDF version)

"Plotting a Show about Nothing: Patterns of Narration in Seinfeld," Creative Screenwriting 2.1 (Fall 1995). (PDF version)