2011) A History of Horror (Rutgers University Press, 2010; Second Revised and Expanded Edition, 2023) Film Noir and The Cinema of Paranoia (Edinburgh University Press and Rutgers University Press, 2009) A Short History of Film, co-authored with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Rutgers University Press) and I.B. Tauris, 2008; Second Edition 2013, Third Edition 2018 ) Film Talk: Directors at Work (Rutgers University Press, 2007) Visions of Paradise: Images of Eden in the Cinema (Rutgers University Press, 2006) American Cinema of the 1940s: Themes and Variations (Rutgers University Press, 2006) Lost in the Fifties: Recovering Phantom Hollywood (Southern Illinois UP, 2005) Film and Television After 9/11 (editor, Southern Illinois UP, 2004) Visions of the Apocalypse: Spectacles of Destruction in American Cinema (Wallflower, 2003) Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema (State University of New York Press, 2003) Experimental Cinema: The Film Reader, co-edited with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster (Routledge, 2002). Disaster and Memory: Celebrity Culture and the Crisis of Hollywood Cinema (Columbia University Press, 1999) The Exploding Eye: A Re-Visionary History of the American Experimental Cinema (State University of New York Press, 1997) The Films of Jean-Luc Godard (State University of New York Press, 1997) The Transparency of Spectacle: Meditations on the Moving Image (State University of New York Press Series in Postmodern Culture, 1998) It Looks at You: Notes on the Returned Gaze of Cinema (State University of New York Press, 1995) Re-Viewing British Cinema: 1900-1992 (State University of New York Press, 1994) The Early Film Criticism of François Truffaut (Indiana University Press, 1993) The Cinematic Vision of F. Scott Fitzgerald (UMI Research Press, 1986) Filmography Independent films Wedding (1969) Quick Constant and Solid Instant (1969) The DC Five Memorial Film (1969) London Clouds (1970) Serial Metaphysics (1972) Waste Motion (1974) Tightrope (1974) Stargrove (1974) Gaze (1974) An Evening with Chris Jangaard (1974) Dana Can Deal (1974) Damage (1974) Un Petit Examen, and Not So Damned Petit Either, or, the Light Shining Over the Dark (1974) Madagascar, or, Caroline Kennedy's Sinful Life in London (1974) The Diaries (1986) Distance (1987) Women Who Made the Movies (1992), co-directed with Gwendolyn Audrey Foster What Can I Do? (1994) Squatters (1995) An American Dream (2016) Summer Storm (2016) Still Life (2016) The Shapes of Things (2016) Closed Circuit (2016) City (2016) Lago di Garda (2016) Acceleration (2016) Commercial films Amazing World of Ghosts (1978) UFO Exclusive (1978) Mysteries from the Bible (1979) UFO: Top Secret