writing and research.
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My research focuses on media access, considering how the distribution of documentary + nonfiction film is a political and cultural taste-making practice.
Essays related to this topic have appeared in Cineaste, the Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television, Décadrages: Cinéma, à travers champs, and edited volume insUrgent Media from the Front: A Media Activism Reader. Refer to my CV for a complete list of publications. PDFs of some of my essays can be accessed via my academia.edu page.
Works-In-Progress
I am currently completing a monograph on the career of labor activist-turned-film distributor Thomas J. Brandon.
Future essays will include:
An analysis of the alienating aesthetics of ‘docudrama’ The Savage Eye (1960) based on a presentation I delivered at Doclisboa in fall 2023
A study of nontheatrical distribution company Swank Motion Picture Company’s ability to overcome technological ‘disruption’ and successfully pivot from analog to digital delivery
An essay on independent researcher Dorothy B. Jones, a forgotten early figure in film content analysis (revised from a papers presented at the International Communication Association and Console-ing Passions conferences)
