He is currently working on a book that chronicles the origins of 1930s American Left film theory. His primary interest is in studying the multiple contexts where cinema has been used by various historical social movements to engender progressive change. He is particularly concerned in exploring the links between aesthetics and politics, and cinema and political activism. He has published articles in The Velvet Light Trap, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies, and the anthology, Nothing That Is: Millennial Cinema and the ‘Blair Witch’ Controversies.