PUBLICATIONS (Books):

Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir (New York: Columbia University Press).  Offers a history of Hollywood lighting during the studio era, explaining how cinematographers reinvented themselves as skillful professional artists by carefully balancing the competing demands of story, studio, and star. 

PUBLICATIONS (Essays):

"Art, Accident, and the Interpretation of the Modern World."  In Arnheim's Legacy: Observation, Invention, and Contemporary Film Studies, edited by Scott Higgins (New York: Routledge, forthcoming).  Examines the later film theory of Rudolf Arnheim, in the context of Kracauer's theory. 

"The Volcano and the Barren Hill: Gabriel Figueroa and the Space of Art Cinema."  In Global Art Cinema, edited by Rosalind Galt and Karl Schoonover (New York: Oxford University Press, forthcoming).  Situates the style of cinematographer Gabriel Figueroa within the context of the institutions of art cinema.  

"Emotional Curves and Linear Narratives."  The Velvet Light Trap 58 (Fall 2006): 4-15.  Considers various ways of theorizing the relationship between narrative and attractions, and proposes a new emotion-centered account, using Busby Berkeley musicals as examples.

"From the Portrait to the Close-Up: Gender and Technology in Still Photography and Hollywood Cinematography." Cinema Journal 45, No. 3 (Spring 2006): 90-108.  Explains how cinematographers adapted the conventions of portrait photography to develop distinct strategies for lighting men and women. 

"The Fictional Worlds of Neorealism." Criticism 45, No. 1 (Winter 2003): 11-30.  Draws on the theories of literary critic Benjamin Harshav to develop a new proposal regarding cinematic realism. 

"Pasolini, Croce, and the Cinema of Poetry."  Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, (June 2001).  Discusses Pasolini's "Cinema of Poetry" essay in light of Croce's aesthetic theory. 

"The Birth of Backlighting in the Classical Cinema."  Aura 6, No. 2 (2000): 45-56.  Details the development of backlighting in Hollywood cinema during the late 1910s. 

PUBLICATIONS (Book Reviews and Encyclopedia Entries):

"The Art of Cinematography." Trinity Magazine. January 2010.

"Cinematography."  In the International Encyclopedia of Communication, edited by Wolfgang Donsbach.  Malden, MA: Blackwell (2008). 

"A Culture of Light: Cinema and Technology in 1920s Germany."  Film International 4, No. 2 (2006).  Review of the book by Frances Guerin. 

"Hollywood Outsiders: The Adaptation of the Film Industry, 1913-1934."  The Moving Image 5, No. 2 (Fall 2005): 160-163.  Review of the book by Anne Morey.

"Montage."  In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, David Herman, and Manfred Jahn.  New York: Routledge, 2005. 

"Point-of-view (cinematic)."  In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, David Herman, and Manfred Jahn.  New York: Routledge, 2005.

"Shot."  In The Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory, edited by Marie-Laure Ryan, David Herman, and Manfred Jahn.  New York: Routledge, 2005.