His most recent published work, Babes in Tomorrowland: Walt Disney and the Making of the American Child, 1930-1960 (Duke University Press, 2005), received the 2006 Katherine Singer Kovacs award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. His current work examines the relationship of blackface minstrelsy to the industrialization of animation in the United States, and he has also written on various topics, from professional wrestling to the relationship between Walt Disney, cryogenics, inflatable furniture, and Mies van der Rohe.