Recent Writing
Scholarship
“Meaning in the Margins: Boutique Distribution and the Contemporary Art House Film Market,” Doctoral Dissertation, UW-Madison, 2024. Link.
“Stream of Rivals: Licensing Coalitions and Art House Film Streaming Platforms,” Media Industries, Forthcoming 2025.
“Two Friends: Circumstances of a Historic Feminist Collaboration,” ReFocus: The Films of Jane Campion. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. Link.
Criticism
In September 2024, Matt St. John and I wrote an accessible analysis of the current state of U.S. indie film distribution and exhibition for David Bordwell and Kristin Thompson’s Observations on Film Art blog.
Recent film criticism include UW-Cinematheque essays on the following programs:
Larry Gottheim short films (2017-2022)
A Dim Valley (Brandon Colvin, 2020)
Between the Lines (Joan Micklin Silver, 1977)
Tropical Malady (Apichatpong Weerasethakul, 2004)
Where Is the Friend’s House? (Abbas Kiarostami, 1987)
Back Street (John M. Stahl, 1932)
Black Narcissus (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger, 1947)
The Chase (Arthur Ripley, 1947)
Bless Their Little Hearts (Billy Woodberry, 1984)
Something Wild (Jonathan Demme, 1986)
For more contemporary media industry analysis, see my Playback articles on Netflix’s international film acquisitions and on Martin Scorsese vs. Marvel.
Publicity
Recent copywriting include the following:
Vilas Voice alumni newsletter, Department of Communication Arts, UW-Madison, 2022.
Various blurbs for the 2019, 2020, and 2022 installments of the Wisconsin Film Festival and for the UW-Cinematheque.
Milestone Films press kits for The Daughter of Dawn (Norbert A. Myles, 1920) and Ornette: Made in America (Shirley Clarke, 1985).