Cloud State University. His research focuses on political economy and cultural studies, particularly as they apply to copyright, reality television, and 1980s cinema. He is the author of Movies and the Reagan Presidency: Success and Ethics (Praeger, 2002). He also has published work in Devised and Directed by Mike Leigh (Bloomsbury, 2013), Gender, Race, and Class in Media, 3rd Ed. (Sage, 2011), Journal of Information Ethics (McFarland, Fall, 2010), Velvet Light Trap (Spring, 2009), Television & New Media (Sage, February, 2007), How Real is Reality TV? (McFarland, 2006), The Democratic Communique (Union for Democratic Communications, Spring, 2006), the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture (Full Circle Press, 2006), The Encyclopedia of the Documentary Film (Routledge, 2005), and the Journal of Popular Film and Television (Winter, 1995).