Publications

Deathwatch:  American Film, Technology, and the End of Life (forthcoming, Columbia University Press).

 

“Mobile Endings:  Screen Death, Early Narrative, and the Films of D.W. Griffith.”  Cinema Journal (Fall 2012).

 

The Jazz Singer or the Corpse:  Al Jolson, Diegetic Music, and the Moment of Death.”  Music and the Moving Image 5:3 (Fall 2012).

 

“The Screen Kallikak:  White Trash for White Guilt in Post-Vietnam American Film,” in Beyond the Plantation:  Southern Identities in Contemporary Films, ed. Andrew Leiter (McFarland Press, 2011).

 

“Cut:  Editing, Execution, and Instant Death.”  Spectator 28:2 (Fall 2008), 31-41.