His research interests include classical Hollywood, cinematography, documentary, and social theory. His book, Sociology on Film: Postwar Hollywood’s Prestige Commodity (Rutgers University Press), examines the 1940s social problem film as both a form of popular sociology and a strain of middlebrow “prestige” cinema. Additionally, he has published essays in Cinema Journal, Screen, and Quarterly Review of Film and Video, and in a number of edited volumes, including most recently Cinematography (Patrick Keating, ed., Rutgers UP) and Middlebrow Cinema (Sally Faulkner, ed., Routledge). His newest book project is an examination of an international “festival film” style in contemporary documentary. His blog, Category D, showcases research in progress and discusses disciplinary issues in film and media studies.