Publications

Books

• 30-Second Cinema (Ed.), Ivy Press, 2019

• Pandora’s Box (BFI Film Classics), British Film Institute, 2018

Co-authored books

• Discovering Lost Films of Georges Méliès in fin-de-siècle Flip Books (1896–1901), with Thierry Lecointe, Pascal Fouché and Robert Byrne, John Libbey, 2020

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, 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

• ‘Nightcap: the poison of perversity’, Twisting the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol, Arrow, 2022

• ‘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

• ‘Pamela Hutchinson on Barbara Stanwyck’, Remember the Night, Indicator, forthcoming 2022
• Audio commentary for The Finish of Mr Fresh and The Dairymaid’s Revenge, Cinema’s First Nasty Women, Kino Lorber, forthcoming 2022

• Audio commentary for Knock on Any Door, Columbia Noir #5: Humphrey Bogart, Indicator,  2022

• Video essay: ‘Imagining Emma: Madame Bovary on Screen, Lies and Deceit: Five Films by Claude Chabrol, Arrow, 2022

• Audio commentary for She Done Him Wrong, Mae West in Hollywood 1932-1943, Indicator, 2021

• ‘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

• ‘King of the Circus’, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, 2022

• ‘A Sister of Six’, San Francisco Silent Film Festival, 2022

• ‘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