Books
In Progress:
Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child. Under Contract, Rutgers University Press.
The Apartment Complex: Apartment Plots in Global Context, as editor.
Fantasies of Neglect: Imagining the Urban Child. Under Contract, Rutgers University Press.
The Apartment Complex: Apartment Plots in Global Context, as editor.
The Apartment Plot: Urban Living in American Film and Popular Culture, 1945 to 1975 (Duke University Press, 2010)
Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna (Duke University Press, 1996)
New Constellations: Movie Stars of the 1960s. Editor. Series editors, Adrienne McLean and Murray Pomerance. (Rutgers University Press, 2011).
Movie Acting: the Film Reader . Editor.(Routledge 2004)
Soundtrack Available: Essays on Film and Popular Music. Co-Editor with Arthur Knight. (Duke University Press, 2001)
Blog
Feminist Mom in a Postfeminist World
http://feministmominpostfeministworld.blogspot.com/
Articles
Chapters in Books
Forthcoming “Little Orphan Annie As Streetwalker.” Representations of Childhood in Comics. University of Texas Press.
2014 “Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in The Big Heat.” In Companion to Fritz Lang,
ed. Joe McElheney. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers,
2013 “Menus for Men or What Have You: Consuming Gay Male Culture in Lou Rand Hogan’s The
Gay Detective and The Gay Cookbook..” In 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage, ed. Wayne Gunn and Jaime Harker. University of Massachusetts Press.
2011 “The Author of this Claptrap: Cornell Woolrich, Alfred Hitchcock and Rear Window.” In Hitchcock and
His Sources, ed. David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer. University of Texas Press.
2010 “The Streisand Musical.” In The Sound of Musicals, ed. Steven Cohan. British Film Institute.
“Judy Holliday: Hungry Star.” In Star Decades: The Fifties, ed. R. Barton Palmer. Rutgers University Press.
1999 "Spectatorship and Audience Research." In The Cinema Book, 2nd ed, ed. Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink,
366-373. London: British Film Institute.
"Mae West's Maids: Race, ‘Authenticity,’ and the Discourse of Camp." In Camp: Queer Aesthetics and
the Performing Subject, A Reader, ed. Fabio Cleto, 393-408. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
“A Star is Born Again, or How Streisand Recycles Garland.” In Falling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, ed. Lesley Stern and George Kouvaros, 177-208. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Power Institute.
1997 “Home and Away: Friends of Dorothy on the Road in Oz." Revised and expanded version of journal article. In The Road Movie Book, ed. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark, 271-286. New York: Routledge.
Articles in Refereed Journals
2014 “Vernacular Modernism as Child’s Play.” New German Critique 122, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer): 87-99.
2006 “The Sound of Film Acting.” The Journal of Film and Video, Special Issue on Acting, 58.1/2 (Spring): 71-83.
2003 “Typecasting.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, 45.2 (Spring): 223-250.
1995 "The Adventures of Priscilla in Oz." Media Information Australia 78: 33-38.
"Camping Under Western Stars: Joan Crawford in Johnny Guitar." Journal of Film and Video (Spring/Fall): 26-42.
1993 "‘The Kinda Comedy That Imitates Me’: Mae West's Identification with the Feminist Camp." Cinema Journal 32.2: 57-72. Winner Society for Cinema Studies Student Writing Award.
"What Are We Listening To? What Are We Talking About? Recorded Sound as an Object of Interdisciplinary Study." Co-author, with The Chicago Recorded Music Workgroup. Stanford Humanities Review 30.2: 171-175.
1990 "Structural Irony in Mildred Pierce, or How Mildred Lost Her Tongue." Cinema Journal 30.1: 42-54.
Reprints in Books
2007 "Spectatorship and Audience Research." In The Cinema Book, 3rd ed., ed. Pam Cook. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press and London: British Film Institute.
2006 “The Sound of Film Acting.” In Annual Editions: Film 2005-2006, and Annual Editions: Film 2006-
2007, ed. Heather Addison and Charles Berg, 31-39. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series.
2002 "Mae West's Maids: Race, ‘Authenticity,’ and the Discourse of Camp." In Hop on Pop: The Politics and
Pleasures of Popular Culture, ed. Henry Jenkins et al, 287-299. Durham: Duke University Press.
“Feminist Camp in Gold Diggers of 1933.” Excerpt from Guilty Pleasures. In The Hollywood Musical: The Film Reader, ed. Steven Cohan, 129-142. New York: Routledge.
1999 "What Makes the Feminist Camp?" Reprint from Guilty Pleasures. In Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the
Performing Subject, A Reader, ed. Fabio Cleto, 266-282. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
“Guilty Pleasures.” Reprint from Guilty Pleasures. In The Madonna Companion: Two Decades of
Commentary, ed. Allan Metz, 268-289. New York: Schirmer Press.
1993 "‘The Kinda Comedy That Imitates Me’: Mae West's Identification with the Feminist Camp."
Reprint of Cinema Journal article. In Campgrounds: Style and Homosexuality, ed. David Bergman, 156-172. Boston: University of Massachusetts.
Online publications
2014 “The City in Film.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press.
2013 Antenna, “The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who: Doctor Whose Fandom?” 10 December 2013
http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/12/10/the-cultural-lives-of-doctor-who-whose-fantasy/
Kritik Breaking Bad Blog, Season 5, Episode 3, “Confessions” 26 August 2013.
http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2013/08/breaking-bad-season-511-untrue.html
2000 “Impromptu Entertainment: Performance Modes in Cassavetes Films.” Senses of Cinema 9 (Sept-Oct):
http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/feature-articles/cassavetes/
1998 Encyclopedia entries on Oscars: 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956; Stars: Henry Fonda, Jodie Foster, Shirley Maclaine, Barbra Streisand. Encyclopedia Britannica on-line.
Forthcoming “Little Orphan Annie As Streetwalker.” Representations of Childhood in Comics. University of Texas Press.
2014 “Tumbling Blocks and Queer Ladders: Notions of Home in The Big Heat.” In Companion to Fritz Lang,
ed. Joe McElheney. Wiley-Blackwell Publishers,
2013 “Menus for Men or What Have You: Consuming Gay Male Culture in Lou Rand Hogan’s The
Gay Detective and The Gay Cookbook..” In 1960s Gay Pulp Fiction: The Misplaced Heritage, ed. Wayne Gunn and Jaime Harker. University of Massachusetts Press.
2011 “The Author of this Claptrap: Cornell Woolrich, Alfred Hitchcock and Rear Window.” In Hitchcock and
His Sources, ed. David Boyd and R. Barton Palmer. University of Texas Press.
2010 “The Streisand Musical.” In The Sound of Musicals, ed. Steven Cohan. British Film Institute.
“Judy Holliday: Hungry Star.” In Star Decades: The Fifties, ed. R. Barton Palmer. Rutgers University Press.
1999 "Spectatorship and Audience Research." In The Cinema Book, 2nd ed, ed. Pam Cook and Mieke Bernink,
366-373. London: British Film Institute.
"Mae West's Maids: Race, ‘Authenticity,’ and the Discourse of Camp." In Camp: Queer Aesthetics and
the Performing Subject, A Reader, ed. Fabio Cleto, 393-408. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
“A Star is Born Again, or How Streisand Recycles Garland.” In Falling for You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, ed. Lesley Stern and George Kouvaros, 177-208. Sydney, NSW, Australia: Power Institute.
1997 “Home and Away: Friends of Dorothy on the Road in Oz." Revised and expanded version of journal article. In The Road Movie Book, ed. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark, 271-286. New York: Routledge.
Articles in Refereed Journals
2014 “Vernacular Modernism as Child’s Play.” New German Critique 122, Vol. 41, No. 2 (Summer): 87-99.
2006 “The Sound of Film Acting.” The Journal of Film and Video, Special Issue on Acting, 58.1/2 (Spring): 71-83.
2003 “Typecasting.” Criticism: A Quarterly for Literature and the Arts, 45.2 (Spring): 223-250.
1995 "The Adventures of Priscilla in Oz." Media Information Australia 78: 33-38.
"Camping Under Western Stars: Joan Crawford in Johnny Guitar." Journal of Film and Video (Spring/Fall): 26-42.
1993 "‘The Kinda Comedy That Imitates Me’: Mae West's Identification with the Feminist Camp." Cinema Journal 32.2: 57-72. Winner Society for Cinema Studies Student Writing Award.
"What Are We Listening To? What Are We Talking About? Recorded Sound as an Object of Interdisciplinary Study." Co-author, with The Chicago Recorded Music Workgroup. Stanford Humanities Review 30.2: 171-175.
1990 "Structural Irony in Mildred Pierce, or How Mildred Lost Her Tongue." Cinema Journal 30.1: 42-54.
Reprints in Books
2007 "Spectatorship and Audience Research." In The Cinema Book, 3rd ed., ed. Pam Cook. Berkeley, CA:
University of California Press and London: British Film Institute.
2006 “The Sound of Film Acting.” In Annual Editions: Film 2005-2006, and Annual Editions: Film 2006-
2007, ed. Heather Addison and Charles Berg, 31-39. Dubuque, IA: McGraw-Hill Contemporary Learning Series.
2002 "Mae West's Maids: Race, ‘Authenticity,’ and the Discourse of Camp." In Hop on Pop: The Politics and
Pleasures of Popular Culture, ed. Henry Jenkins et al, 287-299. Durham: Duke University Press.
“Feminist Camp in Gold Diggers of 1933.” Excerpt from Guilty Pleasures. In The Hollywood Musical: The Film Reader, ed. Steven Cohan, 129-142. New York: Routledge.
1999 "What Makes the Feminist Camp?" Reprint from Guilty Pleasures. In Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the
Performing Subject, A Reader, ed. Fabio Cleto, 266-282. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and Ann Arbor, University of Michigan Press.
“Guilty Pleasures.” Reprint from Guilty Pleasures. In The Madonna Companion: Two Decades of
Commentary, ed. Allan Metz, 268-289. New York: Schirmer Press.
1993 "‘The Kinda Comedy That Imitates Me’: Mae West's Identification with the Feminist Camp."
Reprint of Cinema Journal article. In Campgrounds: Style and Homosexuality, ed. David Bergman, 156-172. Boston: University of Massachusetts.
Online publications
2014 “The City in Film.” In Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies. Ed. Krin Gabbard. New York: Oxford University Press.
2013 Antenna, “The Cultural Lives of Doctor Who: Doctor Whose Fandom?” 10 December 2013
http://blog.commarts.wisc.edu/2013/12/10/the-cultural-lives-of-doctor-who-whose-fantasy/
Kritik Breaking Bad Blog, Season 5, Episode 3, “Confessions” 26 August 2013.
http://unitcrit.blogspot.com/2013/08/breaking-bad-season-511-untrue.html
2000 “Impromptu Entertainment: Performance Modes in Cassavetes Films.” Senses of Cinema 9 (Sept-Oct):
http://sensesofcinema.com/2000/feature-articles/cassavetes/
1998 Encyclopedia entries on Oscars: 1949, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1956; Stars: Henry Fonda, Jodie Foster, Shirley Maclaine, Barbra Streisand. Encyclopedia Britannica on-line.