Achievements
Monograph
Declarations of Independence: American Cinema and the Partiality of Independent Production, Intellect & University of Chicago Press, 2008.
Edited Collections
American Independent Film, Shanghai Jiao Tong University Press, 2017.
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 3, Intellect & University of Chicago Press, 2016.
World Film Locations: Shanghai, Intellect & University of Chicago Press, 2014.
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent 2, Intellect & University of Chicago Press, 2013.
World Film Locations: Beijing, Intellect & University of Chicago Press, 2012.
Directory of World Cinema: American Independent, Intellect & University of Chicago Press, 2010.
Book Chapters
“Hidden in Plain Sight: The False Leads and True Mysteries of Vengeance is Mine,” Clients, Killers and Kindred Spirits: The Taboo Cinema of Shohei Imamura, Edinburgh University Press, 2018.
“Rural Crime Wave: Reconfiguring Rural Spaces Through Genre,” A Companion to Indie Film, Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
“Living in Oblivion: How Mistaking Chad for Brad Could Not Overcome the Commercial Limits of the Self-Reflexive Cycle,” US Independent Filmmaking After 1989: Possible Films, Edinburgh University Press, 2015.
“Tokyo is a Nice Place: The Urban, the Suburban, and the Spaces In-Between,” Ozu and Evolution: Reassessing an Icon of Japanese Cinema, Bloomsbury, 2015.
“Chinese Popcorn: China’s Multiplex Cinema of the 2000s,” Electric Shadows: A Century of Chinese Cinema, BFI, 2014.
“Film Noir and Post-Studio Production Practices,” A Companion to Film Noir, Wiley Blackwell, 2013.
Journal Articles
“Yuppie Dot-Con: Running on Empty with the E-Entrepreneur of August,” Film
International, Vol. 14. Issue 3-4.
“Out of the Past: The Hard Boiled Histories of Zhang Yimou’s Ju Dou and A Simple Noodle Story,” Journal of Literature and Film, Vol. 16. Issue 1.
“Urban China on Screen: Mapping the Postsocialist Cinematic City,” Geography Compass, Vol. 7. Issue 8.
“The Science Fiction Cinema of Mainland China: Politics, Production and Market Potential,” Science Fiction Film and Television, Vol. 6. Issue 2.
“Lady Blue Shanghai: The Strange Case of David Lynch and Dior,” Film, Fashion & Consumption, Vol. 1. Issue 3.
“Deep, Deep, Down: The Social Satire of Mario Bava’s Danger: Diabolik,” Film International, Vol. 10. Issue 4-5.
