He has published eight books on aspects of national cinemas and the history and theory of nonfiction film (among them Documentary Screens, Palgrave Macmillan, Humphrey Jennings, Manchester University Press, and D.A. Pennebaker, University of Illinois Press). He is currently writing a volume for the Film Classics series published by the British Film Institute, and a book on the intersections of popular music and documentary film for Columbia University Press. At Deakin he heads the Processes of Signification Faculty Research Group and contributes to research projects undertaken within the Centre for Citizenship and Globalisation.