He is the author of Soul Searching: Black-Themed Cinema from the March on Washington to the Rise of Blaxploitation (Wesleyan University Press, 2011), winner of the 2012 Richard Wall Memorial Award from the Theatre Library Association. He is currently researching the career of writer-director Bill Gunn for a monograph on Ganja & Hess (1973). [Lauren Berg, FM 2.3, 2011; Will Stephenson, FM 2.3, 2011; Guest Editor, FM 4.4, 2013]