BOOKS
The Rebirth of Suspense: Slowness and Atmosphere in Cinema.
Columbia University Press, forthcoming 2024.
Godard and the Essay Film: A Form That Thinks.
Northwestern University Press, 2018.
True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity,
co-editor with Colin MacCabe and Kathleen Murray.
Oxford University Press, 2011.
GUEST-EDITED JOURNAL ISSUE
“The Late Work of Jean-Luc Godard.” Special Issue. Critical Quarterly 51, no. 3. October 2009.
SELECT ARTICLES & CHAPTERS (see CV for complete list)
“Audiovisual Rhythm and its Spectator: Moonlight as Example.” In The Oxford Handbook of Film Theory, ed. Kyle Stevens, 421-444. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022.
“Notes on the Slow Thriller in Contemporary World Cinema.” Studies in World Cinema 1, no. 1 (2021): 104-113.
“Malick’s Emergent Lyricism in Badlands and Days of Heaven.” In The Other Hollywood Renaissance, edited by R. Barton Palmer, Murray Pomerance, and Dominic Lennard, 177-87. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020.
“The Aesthetics of Vital Despair: Cassavetes’s The Killing of a Chinese Bookie,” South Atlantic Review 85, no. 4 (2020): 97-121.
“Feeling on Edge: Kubrick’s The Shining Between Horror and Comedy.” Senses of Cinema 95 (2020).
“Kubrickian Dread: Echoes of 2001 and The Shining in Works by Jonathan Glazer, Paul Thomas Anderson, and David Lynch.” In After Kubrick: A Filmmaker’s Legacy, ed. Jeremi Szaniawski. New York and London: Bloomsbury, 2020.
“Jack Nicholson in The Passenger.” In Close-Up: Great Cinematic Performances Volume 1: America, edited by Murray Pomerance and Kyle Stevens, 199-211. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
“The Essayist among and through Others: Chris Marker’s Symposial Montage in The Owl’s Legacy.” The Cine-Files: A Scholarly Journal of Cinema Studies 12 (2017).
“Orange is the Warmest Color: Mood and Chromatic Temperature in Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller.” New Review of Film and Television Studies 15, no. 1 (2017): 24-39.
“Essaying the Forms of Popular Cinema: Godard, Farocki, and the Principle of Shot-Countershot.” In The Essay Film: Dialogue, Politics, Utopia, edited by Caroline Eades and Elizabeth Papazian, 28-66. London: Wallflower, 2016.
“Godard’s Stereoscopic Essay: Thinking in and with Adieu au langage.” In The Global Auteur: Politics and Philosophy in 21st Century Cinema, edited by Seung-hoon Jeong and Jeremi Szaniawski, 61-78. New York: Bloomsbury, 2016.
“Filming a Miracle: Ordet, Silent Light, and the Spirit of Contemplative Cinema,” Critical Quarterly 57, no. 2 (2015): 46-71.
“The Cinematic Essay as Adaptive Process,” Adaptation 6, no. 1 (2013): 1-24.
“Contempt Revisited: Godard at the Margins of Adaptation.” In True to the Spirit: Film Adaptation and the Question of Fidelity, edited by Colin MacCabe, Kathleen Murray, and Rick Warner, 195-213. New York: Oxford University Press, 2011.
“Go-for-Broke Games of History: Chris Marker Between ‘Old’ and ‘New’ Media.” Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities 24, no. 1 (2009): 14-26.
“Shocking Histoire(s): Godard, Surrealism, and Historical Montage.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video 25, no. 1 (2008): 1-15.
VIDEO ESSAYS
“Inside and Outside Llewyn Davis: Five Uneasy Pieces.” Audiovisualcy: Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies. July-August 2017.
“Tarkovsky / This Side of the Screen.” Audiovisualcy: Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies. February 2017.
“A Thin Red Photogram: Regarding a Millisecond in Malick’s Antiwar Epic.” Audiovisualcy: Videographic Film and Moving Image Studies. January 2017.
