He received his PhD in Communications from McGill University, and has a BA and an MA in Comparative Literature and Film Studies from the University of Alberta. His interest in research include film theory and history, new digital media, documentary cinema and cultural and media studies. He has published on cinema and semiotics, film theory, on the philosophical cinema of Terrence Malick, and on the photographic theory of Susan Sontag. He has also edited an anthology of classic texts in film theory, The Film Theory Reader: Debates and Arguments (Routledge 2010), and is the co-editor of a volume of essays entitled: Cinema and Technology (Palgrave 2008). He is presently preparing a book on the relations between film theory and technological change.