Books
- 30-Second Cinema (Ed.), Ivy Press, 2019
- Pandora’s Box (BFI Film Classics), British Film Institute, 2018
Co-authored books
Curated film seasons
Essays in edited collections
- ‘Fear of the Dark: Anxiety in the Audience, Opening up the Magic Box: Friese-Greene and Reflections on Film, Bristol Ideas, 2021
- ‘“An intensive study of – feet!” in two films by Lois Weber’, Shoe Reels: The History and Philosophy of Footwear in Film, Edinburgh University Press, forthcoming 2020
- ‘Death cults and matinee idols’, She Found it at the Movies: Women Writers on Sex, Desire and Cinema, Red Press, March 2020
- ‘The Woman Under Oath’ and ‘Suspicious Wives’, The Call of the Heart: John M. Stahl and Hollywood Melodrama, John Libbey, 2018
- ‘Reverent Fidelity: Early Adaptations of Alice’, Wonderland, Thames & Hudson, 2018
- ‘Can you trust the cinema?’, Thriller: A BFI Compendium, British Film Institute, 2017
- ‘Dream lovers: love and the silent cinema’, Love: A BFI Compendium, British Film Institute, 2015
DVD/Blu-ray essays
- ‘Twentieth Century: “running the gamut from the gutter, to glory”‘, Twentieth Century, Indicator, 2021
- ‘Seven Sinners’, Marlene Dietrich at Universal 1940-1942, BFI, 2021
- ‘The triumph of “Mrs Lopsided”: Katie Johnson and The Ladykillers‘, The Ladykillers 65th Anniversary Edition, Studiocanal, 2020
- ‘Sweet Charity: A Pretty Girl in the Orchestra Pit’, Sweet Charity, Indicator, 2020
- The Son of the Sheik, Masters of Cinema, 2020
- ‘The Tramp in the Mirror’, The Circus, Criterion, 2019
- ‘Passion and Perfectionism’, Marlene Dietrich & Josef von Sternberg at Paramount, 1930-1935, Indicator, 2019
- Alice Guy Blaché, Early Women Filmmakers, BFI, 2019
- ‘A Cruel Inheritance’, The Heiress, Criterion Collection, 2019
- ‘A Study in Bourgeois Perversion’, A Severed Head, Indicator, 2019
- ‘Born Yesterday and the difficulties of controlling education’, Born Yesterday, Arrow Academy, 2019
- ‘The Crimson Kimono’, Samuel Fuller at Columbia, 1937-1961, Indicator, 2018
- ‘The Tall T’, Five Tall Tales: Budd Boetticher & Randolph Scott at Columbia, 1957-1960, Indicator, 2018
- Ingrid Bergman’s Swedish Years, Eclipse/Criterion Collection, 2018
- ‘Le Bonheur’, The Agnès Varda Collection, Artificial Eye, 2017
- ‘The Cocoanuts’, The 4 Marx Brothers at Paramount, 1929-1933, Arrow Academy, 2017
- ‘Walk Cheerfully’, Ozu Collection – the Gangster Films, British Film Institute, 2013
- ‘Cocktails Incite the Human Machine’, L’Atlantide, Arrow Academy [delayed]
Video DVD/Blu-ray extras
- Audio commentary for She Done Him Wrong, Mae West in Hollywood 1932-1943, Indicator, forthcoming
- ‘Hammer’s Women: Moira Redmond’, Hammer Volume 6: Night Shadows, Indicator, 2021
- ‘The Poised Performance: Nina Foch’, Columbia Noir #3, Indicator, 2021
- Audio commentary for Pittsburgh, Marlene Dietrich at Universal 1940-1942, BFI, 2021
- Audio commentary for Escape in the Fog, Columbia Noir #1, Indicator, 2020
- ‘No Rules But Her Own: Jean Arthur’, John Ford at Columbia 1935-1958, Indicator, 2020
- ‘Hammer’s Women: Eunice Gayson’, Hammer Volume Four: Faces of Evil, Indicator, 2019
- ‘The Many Faces of Jean Seberg’, Lilith, Indicator, 2019
- ‘The Battles of Olivia de Havilland’, The Snake Pit, Indicator, 2019
- ‘The Shopgirl’s Delight’, Berserk, Indicator, 2018
Entries in festival catalogues
- ‘Gigi’, Il Cinema Ritrovato, 2019
- ‘Shiraz: a Romance of India’, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, 2019
- ‘Suspicious Wives’, Le Giornate del Cinema Muto, 2018
- ‘The Woman Under Oath’, Il Cinema Ritrovato, 2018
- ‘Master of the House’, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, 2018
- ‘The Informer’, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, 2017
Selected conference papers and lectures
- ‘Reading the stones: film star graves and memorials’, Stardom and the Archive, University of Exeter, February 2020
- ‘Hugh Jackman: The Latest Showman’, BFI Southbank, December 2019
- ‘Hot Take: The B Word’, BFI Southbank, June 2019
- ‘”The Woman’s Angle”: Barbara Stanwyck and Melodrama, BFI Southbank, February 2019
- ‘Anita Loos: The Soubrette of Satire’, BFI Southbank, October 2018
- ‘Joan Crawford: Born That Way’, BFI Southbank, August 2018
- ‘Agnès Varda: the Joyful Feminist’, BFI Southbank, June 2018
- ‘”Pandora’s Box with the Lid Off!”: Lulu’s Misadventures in London’, British Silent Film Festival Symposium, April 2017
- ’12 Things You Only Know if You’re a Silent Film Blogger’, British Silent Film Festival Symposium, April 2014
