Monograph
Rock Star/Movie Star: Power and Performance in Cinematic Rock Stardom (Oxford University Press, 2020), 288 pages.
- reviewed in Studies in Musical Theatre and Journal of Popular Music Studies
Journal Articles (and a Video Essay)
"When Billie Holiday Went to Hollywood: The Biopic as Reputation Management in Lady Sings the Blues," New Review of Film and Television Studies (forthcoming 2026)
"Moving-Image Mixtape: On Pixelvision Film and Video Art," Screen 65(3), 2024, 327-351.
"Pop Ubiquity: Cameo Performance as Star Management," Celebrity Studies 15(3), 2024, 382-405.
"Styles of Movie Stardom after Movie Stardom," Velvet Light Trap 93, Spring 2024, 57-60 (invited).
"Engineering the 'Sense of Being There': Electronovision and the Invention of the Stage Performance Documentary," Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 43(4), 2023, 1157-1182.
"@Concert: Liveness in the Time of Coronavirus," [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 10(1), 2023, 8 min.
"Between the Movie and the Money: Packaging the 1970s Motion Picture Tax Shelter," Media Industries Journal 9(2), 2022, 19 pages.
"From Freedom Dreams to Boomer Nostalgia: Licensing the Cinematic Meanings of Motown," Journal of Popular Music Studies 34(4), 2022, 85-108.
"Do the Loud Thing: The Boombox and Urban Space in 1980s American Cinema," JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61(5), 2022, 59-85.
"MTV Video Stardom as Media Power: Madonna's (Moving) Image Control," Film Criticism 45(1), 2021 (invited).
co-authored with Jimi Jones, "A Record for Your Television: The Capacitance Electronic Disc’s History of Failure," The Moving Image 18(2), 2018, 103-131.
"The Portable Recording Studio: Documentary Filmmaking and Live Album Recording, 1967-1969," iaspm@journal: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music 6(2), 2016, 49-69.
"'And Introducing Elvis Presley': Industrial Convergence and Transmedia Stardom in the Rock 'n' Roll Movie," Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 9(2), 2015, 177-190.
"Re-collecting David Bowie: The Next Day and late-career stardom," Celebrity Studies 4(3), 2013, 384-386.
"Moving-Image Mixtape: On Pixelvision Film and Video Art," Screen 65(3), 2024, 327-351.
"Pop Ubiquity: Cameo Performance as Star Management," Celebrity Studies 15(3), 2024, 382-405.
"Styles of Movie Stardom after Movie Stardom," Velvet Light Trap 93, Spring 2024, 57-60 (invited).
"Engineering the 'Sense of Being There': Electronovision and the Invention of the Stage Performance Documentary," Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television 43(4), 2023, 1157-1182.
"@Concert: Liveness in the Time of Coronavirus," [in]Transition: Journal of Videographic Film & Moving Image Studies 10(1), 2023, 8 min.
"Between the Movie and the Money: Packaging the 1970s Motion Picture Tax Shelter," Media Industries Journal 9(2), 2022, 19 pages.
- winner, Outstanding Journal Article or Chapter in an Edited Collection, Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
"From Freedom Dreams to Boomer Nostalgia: Licensing the Cinematic Meanings of Motown," Journal of Popular Music Studies 34(4), 2022, 85-108.
"Do the Loud Thing: The Boombox and Urban Space in 1980s American Cinema," JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 61(5), 2022, 59-85.
"MTV Video Stardom as Media Power: Madonna's (Moving) Image Control," Film Criticism 45(1), 2021 (invited).
co-authored with Jimi Jones, "A Record for Your Television: The Capacitance Electronic Disc’s History of Failure," The Moving Image 18(2), 2018, 103-131.
"The Portable Recording Studio: Documentary Filmmaking and Live Album Recording, 1967-1969," iaspm@journal: Journal of the International Association for the Study of Popular Music 6(2), 2016, 49-69.
"'And Introducing Elvis Presley': Industrial Convergence and Transmedia Stardom in the Rock 'n' Roll Movie," Music, Sound, and the Moving Image 9(2), 2015, 177-190.
"Re-collecting David Bowie: The Next Day and late-career stardom," Celebrity Studies 4(3), 2013, 384-386.
Book Chapters
“Beyond Black Woodstock: Summer of Soul as Historical Recovery,” in Summer of Soul (… Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): A Docalogue, eds. Jaimie Baron and Kristen Fuhs (New York: Routledge, 2023), 34-46.
“I’m an American, Just Like You: The Room and American Cinema, Identity, and Masculinity,” in You’re Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!: A Year’s Work on The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made, ed. Adam M. Rosen (Indiana University Press, 2022), 174-184.
“Strategies of the Popular Music Documentary’s Recovery Mode,” Reclaiming Popular Documentary, eds. Christie Milliken and Steve Anderson (Indiana University Press, 2021), 259-276.
"Everybody Wants to Be a Cat: Jazz Culture and Disney Animation in the 1960s," Musicals at the Margins: Genres, Boundaries, Canons, eds. Julie Lobalzo Wright and Martha Shearer (Bloomsbury, 2021), 172-186.
"The Soundtrack in Transition: The Many Objects of Paul Simon’s One-Trick Pony," The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media, eds. Paul N. Reinsch and Laurel Westrup (Routledge, 2020), 21-37.
"The Disembodied Fry: William S. Burroughs and Vocal Performance," William S. Burroughs: Cutting Up the Century, eds. Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan (Indiana University Press, 2019), 97-111.
"King Creole: Michael Curtiz and the Great Elvis Presley Industry," The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz, eds., R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance (University of Texas Press, 2018), 171-184.
"From Culture to Torture: Music and Violence in Funny Games and The Piano Teacher," The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia, eds. Ben McCann and David Sorfa (Columbia University Press, 2012), 179-191.
"Gender, Regional Identity, and the Civil War: Politics of the North and South in Sweet Home Alabama and Junebug," Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, ed. Andrew B. Leiter (McFarland, 2011), 89-105.
“I’m an American, Just Like You: The Room and American Cinema, Identity, and Masculinity,” in You’re Tearing Me Apart, Lisa!: A Year’s Work on The Room, the Worst Movie Ever Made, ed. Adam M. Rosen (Indiana University Press, 2022), 174-184.
“Strategies of the Popular Music Documentary’s Recovery Mode,” Reclaiming Popular Documentary, eds. Christie Milliken and Steve Anderson (Indiana University Press, 2021), 259-276.
"Everybody Wants to Be a Cat: Jazz Culture and Disney Animation in the 1960s," Musicals at the Margins: Genres, Boundaries, Canons, eds. Julie Lobalzo Wright and Martha Shearer (Bloomsbury, 2021), 172-186.
"The Soundtrack in Transition: The Many Objects of Paul Simon’s One-Trick Pony," The Soundtrack Album: Listening to Media, eds. Paul N. Reinsch and Laurel Westrup (Routledge, 2020), 21-37.
"The Disembodied Fry: William S. Burroughs and Vocal Performance," William S. Burroughs: Cutting Up the Century, eds. Joan Hawkins and Alex Wermer-Colan (Indiana University Press, 2019), 97-111.
"King Creole: Michael Curtiz and the Great Elvis Presley Industry," The Many Cinemas of Michael Curtiz, eds., R. Barton Palmer and Murray Pomerance (University of Texas Press, 2018), 171-184.
"From Culture to Torture: Music and Violence in Funny Games and The Piano Teacher," The Cinema of Michael Haneke: Europe Utopia, eds. Ben McCann and David Sorfa (Columbia University Press, 2012), 179-191.
"Gender, Regional Identity, and the Civil War: Politics of the North and South in Sweet Home Alabama and Junebug," Southerners on Film: Essays on Hollywood Portrayals Since the 1970s, ed. Andrew B. Leiter (McFarland, 2011), 89-105.
Select Awards
2024 Outstanding Journal Article or Chapter in an Edited Collection, Media Industries Scholarly Interest Group, Society for Cinema and Media Studies
2023 Domestic Research Award, The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
2022 Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities
2017 Research Fellowship, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives, The Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University
2015-2016 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship, Indiana University
2014 Graduate Research Travel Award, College of Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University
2014 Lambda Pi Eta Associate Instructor Teaching Award, Kappa Alpha chapter, Indiana University
2013 Outstanding Teaching Award for an Upper-Level Undergraduate Course, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University
2023 Domestic Research Award, The Wittliff Collections at Texas State University
2022 Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities
2017 Research Fellowship, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Library and Archives, The Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University
2015-2016 College of Arts and Sciences Dissertation Year Research Fellowship, Indiana University
2014 Graduate Research Travel Award, College of Arts and Humanities Institute, Indiana University
2014 Lambda Pi Eta Associate Instructor Teaching Award, Kappa Alpha chapter, Indiana University
2013 Outstanding Teaching Award for an Upper-Level Undergraduate Course, Department of Communication and Culture, Indiana University
