His book, Hollywood Lighting from the Silent Era to Film Noir, won the Best First Book Award from the Society of Cinema and Media Studies. The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences has named him an Academy Film Scholar in support of his research on the history of camera movement in Hollywood cinema. He is the author of several essays on Hollywood film, including two contributions to The Classical Hollywood Reader. In 2014, he edited Cinematography, a contribution to Rutgers’s Behind the Silver Screen series. Most recently, he has been creating video essays about camera movement in Hollywood.