His research is devoted to understanding relationships between the media industries, geography, and cultural identities. He is author of Videoland: Movie Culture at the American Video Store (UC Press, 2014). His essays appear in Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Creative Industries Journal, Film Quarterly, Millennium Film Journal, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video, as well as in several edited collections. He is also on the board of the Scarecrow Project, the non-profit organization that supports Scarecrow Video in Seattle.