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Education:

1987. PhD (Communication Studies), University of Wisconsin-Madison
1982. MFA (Film), Columbia University
1980. BA (English), University of Wisconsin-Madison

Books:

Co-Editor (with Gaylyn Studlar), John Ford Made Westerns: Filming the Legend in the Sound Era
(Indiana University Press, 2001) Buy this book.

Walter Wanger, Hollywood Independent
(University of Minnesota Press, 2000; University of California Press, 1994) Buy this book.

Editor, Controlling Hollywood: Censorship and Regulation in the Studio Era
(Rutgers University Press, 2000) Buy this book.

Co-Editor (with Gaylyn Studlar), Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film
(Rutgers University Press, 1997) Buy this book.

Other Recent Publications:

"Oscar Micheaux and Leo Frank: Cinematic Justice Across the Color Line," Film Quarterly 57, No. 4 (Summer 2004): 8-21.
***Winner, 2005 Katherine Singer Kovacs Essay Award from The Society for Cinema and Media Studies for outstanding scholarship in film and media studies.

"Kurosawa's Narration and the Noh Theater," in Post Script 20, no. 1 ("Special Issue on Akira Kurosawa," Spring 2000): 34-45.

Co-editor with Dana F. White, "Movie-going Metropolis," Special Issue of Atlanta History 43, no. 2 (Summer 1999).

"Perfecting the New Gangster: Writing Bonnie and Clyde," Film Quarterly 53, no. 4 (2000), 16-31.

"High and Low: Art Cinema and Pulp Fiction in Yokohama Harbor," in James Naremore (ed.), Film Adaptation, Rutgers University Press (2000), 172-189.

"Model Criminals: Visual Style in Bonnie and Clyde," in Lester D. Friedman (ed.), Arthur Penn's Bonnie and Clyde, Cambridge University Press (1999), 101-126.

"Selznick's March: Gone With the Wind Comes to White Atlanta," Atlanta History 43, no. 2 (Summer 1999), 7-33. Winner of the Franklin M. Garrett Prize for Best Essay on Atlanta and Georgia History, 1998-1999.

"'Floating Triumphantly': The American Critics on Titanic," in Kevin Sandler and Gaylyn Studlar (eds.), Titanic: Anatomy of a Blockbuster, Rutgers University Press (1999), 14-28.