He is the author of the award-winning Italy in Early American Cinema: Race, Landscape, and the Picturesque , as well as of Emir Kusturica (published in both Italian and English). He edited Italian Silent Cinema: A Reader and coedited with Richard Abel and Rob King Early Cinema and the 'National .' He is currently working on a project titled "The Divo and the Duce: Film Stardom and Political Leadership in 1920s America."