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Books
2018, The Old Greeks: Photography, Cinema, Migration, University of Western Australia Press, Crawley, WA
,2015, Awakening the Eye: Robert Frank’s American Cinema, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
,2010, Famous Faces Yet Not Themselves: The Misfits and Icons of Postwar America, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
,2008, Paul Schrader, Original, University of Illinios Press, Urbana and Chicago
,2004, Where Does It Happen? John Cassavetes and Cinema at the Breaking Point, Original, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis
,1999, Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, Stern L; Kouvaros G, (ed.), Original, Power Publications, Sydney
,Book Chapters
2019, ''I Don't Know What to Do with My Hands': John Cassavetes' The Killing of a Chinese Bookie'', in Kirshner J; Lewis J (ed.), When the Movies Mattered: The New Hollywood Revisited, Cornell University Press, Ithaca and London, pp. 130 - 148, http://web.b.ebscohost.com/ehost/detail/detail?vid=0&sid=5a20db09-3245-4377-849e-b4ae106db811%40pdc-v-sessmgr06&bdata=JnNpdGU9ZWhvc3QtbGl2ZSZzY29wZT1zaXRl#AN=2089062&db=nlebk
,2010, '"Those Who Wait" The Misfits and Late Hollywood Style', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 149 - 181, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900006&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2010, 'A Measure of Time INTRODUCTION', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 1 - +, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900001&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2010, 'Absorption and the Method The Iconography of Method Acting', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 31 - 54, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900002&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2010, 'Acting as Labor Picturing The Misfits', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 113 - 147, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900005&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2010, 'Being Private in Public Marilyn Monroe's Performance of Intimacy', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 81 - 111, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900004&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2010, 'Playing with Time The Magnum Photographs as Historical Record', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 183 - 213, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900007&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2010, 'The Star Brought Down to Earth The Actor and Postwar Photography', in FAMOUS FACES YET NOT THEMSELVES: THE MISFITS AND ICONS OF POSTWAR AMERICA, UNIV MINNESOTA PRESS, pp. 55 - 80, http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000284900900003&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=891bb5ab6ba270e68a29b250adbe88d1
,2009, 'Images that Remember Us: Photography and Memory in Austerlitz', in Fischer G (ed.), W.G. Sebald: Schreiben Ex Patria / Expatriate Writing., edn. 1, Rodopi, Amsterdam and New York, pp. 389 - 412
,2008, ''We Do Not Die Twice": Realism and Cinema', in Donald J; Renov M (ed.), The Sage Handbook of Film Studies, Sage, London, pp. 376 - 390
,1999, 'Descriptive Acts', in Kouvaros G; Stern L (ed.), Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, edn. Original, Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 1 - 35
,1999, 'Improvisation and the Operatic: Cassavetes' A Woman Under the Influence', in Kouvaros G; Stern L (ed.), Falling For You: Essays on Cinema and Performance, edn. Original, Power Publications, Sydney, pp. 49 - 71
,Journal articles
2022, '“The Postman’s Coming:” La Morte Rouge (soliloquio) and the Limits of Essayistic Thinking', Comparative Cinema, 10, pp. 76 - 94, http://dx.doi.org/10.31009/cc.2022.v10.i18.05
,2020, '‘A poor and precious secret’: cinema’s remediation in Patrick Modiano’s Dora Bruder', Textual Practice, pp. 1 - 12, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0950236X.2020.1792969
,2020, 'El Sur (The South), or the Memory of Cinema', Movie: a Journal of Film Criticism, https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/film/movie/contents/movie_issue9_elsur.pdf
,2020, 'Pacific Park', Sydney Review of Books, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/pacific-park/
,2020, 'The Bouquet', Sydney Review of Books, https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/the-bouquet/
,2019, 'The Other Life', Southerly: a review of Australian literature, 78, pp. 60 - 68, https://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=425545502411358;res=IELLCC
,2018, 'The Enigma of Arrival', Life Writing, 15, pp. 579 - 590, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14484528.2016.1276792
,2017, ''It's Not Quite Right Yet': Realism and Affect in A Woman Under the Influence and A nos amours', Paragraph, 40, pp. 228 - 243, http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/para.2017.0227
,2017, 'Before Something and After Something Else: Film Studies in the Age of Media Studies', Screening the Past, http://www.screeningthepast.com/2017/09/before-something-and-after-something-else-film-studies-in-the-age-of-media-studies/
,2016, 'Ithaka, or the Open Voyage: Jonas Mekas' Lost Lost Lost and Reminiscences of a Journey to Lithuania', Screening the Past
,2016, 'The Old Greeks', Cultural Studies Review, 22, pp. 149 - 157, http://dx.doi.org/10.5130/csr.v22i2.5063
,2015, 'Oi Kaymeni ('The Burnt Ones')', Southerly, 75, pp. 74 - 88
,2015, 'As If It Were For the Last Time: Wim Wenders—Film and Photography', New German Critique, 42, pp. 81 - 95, http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/0094033X-2889272
,2013, 'A Trip to the Moon', Screening the Past, http://www.screeningthepast.com/2013/06/a-trip-to-the-moon/
,2012, ''Time and How to Note it Down': The Lessons of Pull My Daisy', Screen, 53, pp. 1 - 17, http://screen.oxfordjournals.org/content/53/1/1.full
,2011, 'The Generation of the Photograph, or Those Left Behind', Southerly, 71, pp. 154 - 165, http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=549891543195885;res=IELLCC
,2010, ''He's Not There': Robert Frank's Me and My Brother', Screening the Past
,2010, 'Our Place in the World', Screening the Past
,2009, 'Those Who Wait: The Misfits and Late Style', Screening the Past, 25, pp. n/a - n/a
,2007, 'Interview with Paul Schrader', Rouge Magazine, 11
,2005, 'Images That Remember Us: Photography and Memory in Austerlitz', Textual Practice, 19, pp. 195 - 211
,2002, 'Affliction', Film Quarterly, 55(3), pp. 45 - 51
,2002, 'The Misfits: What Happened Around the Camera', Film Quarterly, 55, pp. 28 - 33
,2001, 'A strange sun: cinema and theatre in John Cassavetes` The killing of a Chinese bookie and Opening night', Screening the Past, 13, pp. 1 - 21
,2001, 'Nocturnal kinship', Screening the Past, 13, pp. 1 - 10
,1999, 'An Art of Proper Appearances', UTS Review, 5, pp. 142 - 154
,1999, 'Before and After What?', Convergence, 5, pp. 102 - 114
,1999, 'Intoxication, the Body, Burlesque: Cassavetes`s Love Streams', Metro, 120, pp. 44 - 54
,1998, 'Lessons in Writing: Learning From Barthes', UTS Review, 4, pp. 112 - 122
,1998, 'Where Does It Happen? The Place of Performance in the Work of John Cassavetes', Screen, 39, pp. 244 - 258
,1997, 'Report: On dangerous ground: Film studies in Australia', Screen, 38, pp. 76 - 81, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/screen/38.1.76
,1997, 'Breaking the Girl: Von Trier`s Breaking the Waves', RealTime, 19, pp. 18 - 18
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