Monograph
Still in the Saddle: The Hollywood Western, 1969-1980. Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2015.
Edited collections
ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves. Co-edited with Matthew Carter. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016.
Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television since 1990. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013.
Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television since 1990. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013.
Essays and articles
Review of Latter-Day Screens: Genre, Sexuality, and Mediated Mormonism by Brenda R. Weber. Mormon Studies Review 8 (2021): 117-122.
"Wagon Mistress." Women in the Western. Ed. Sue Matheson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 287-299.
"Saluting Big Jake." John Wayne Birthplace & Museum Bulletin (Fourth Quarter, 2019): 2. Also available online.
“John Wayne.” Warhol and the West. Eds. heather ahtone, Seth Hopkins and Faith Brower. Tacoma Art Museum and University of California Press, 2019. 104-106.
“True Grit: True triumph for Duke,” Roundup Magazine XXXVI 2 (December 2018): 19, 39. Also available online.
“Faust at Famous Players.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to D.W. Griffith. Ed. Charlie Keil. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. 423-439.
"Building Your Western Library." True West Magazine 65.4 (April 2018): 62. Also available online.
“Keeping the Spirit Alive: Preservation and Specialization in the New Golden Age of the Western,” Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exhibition catalog, eds. Thomas Smith and Mary Desmarais. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 2017.
“John Wayne,” Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exhibition catalog, eds.Thomas Smith and Mary Desmarais. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 2017.
“Eastwood’s Revenge,” Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exhibition catalog, eds. Thomas Smith and Mary Desmarais. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 2017.
"Don't Be Too Quick to Dismiss Them: Authorship in the Westerns of Delmer Daves." ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves. Eds. Matthew Carter and Andrew Patrick Nelson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 48-62.
"Introduction: 'No One Would Know It Was Mine: Delmer Daves, Modest Auteur." With Matthew Carter. ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves. Eds. Matthew Carter and Andrew Patrick Nelson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 1-47.
“Hollywood Westerns: 1930s to the Present.” A History of Western American Literature. Ed. Susan Kollin. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
“Franchise Legacy and Neo-Slasher Conventions in Halloween H20.” Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher. Ed. Wickham Clayton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
“Trick ‘R Treat, The Cabin in the Woods and the Defense of Horror’s Subcultural Capital.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10, 2 (January 2014): n. page. Web.
“Introduction: The American Western, 1990-2010” and “Revisionism 2.0? Unforgiven and the Hollywood Western of the 1990s.” Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television since 1990. Ed. Andrew Patrick Nelson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. xiii-xxi and 15-30.
“Only a Woman After All? Gender Dynamics in the Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck.” Love in Western Film and Television. Ed. Sue Matheson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 19-33.
“All About Erin: Responsibility and Self-Centered Narration in Erin Brockovich.” The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh. Eds. R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2011. 159-172.
“Traumatic Childhood Now Included: Todorov’s Fantastic and the Uncanny Slasher Remake.” American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium. Ed. Steffen Hantke. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. 103-118.
“Cinema from Attractions: Story and Synergy in Disney’s Theme Park Movies.” Cinephile 4, 1 (Summer 2008): 36-41. Also online.
"Wagon Mistress." Women in the Western. Ed. Sue Matheson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2020. 287-299.
"Saluting Big Jake." John Wayne Birthplace & Museum Bulletin (Fourth Quarter, 2019): 2. Also available online.
“John Wayne.” Warhol and the West. Eds. heather ahtone, Seth Hopkins and Faith Brower. Tacoma Art Museum and University of California Press, 2019. 104-106.
“True Grit: True triumph for Duke,” Roundup Magazine XXXVI 2 (December 2018): 19, 39. Also available online.
“Faust at Famous Players.” The Wiley-Blackwell Companion to D.W. Griffith. Ed. Charlie Keil. New York: Wiley-Blackwell, 2018. 423-439.
"Building Your Western Library." True West Magazine 65.4 (April 2018): 62. Also available online.
“Keeping the Spirit Alive: Preservation and Specialization in the New Golden Age of the Western,” Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exhibition catalog, eds. Thomas Smith and Mary Desmarais. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 2017.
“John Wayne,” Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exhibition catalog, eds.Thomas Smith and Mary Desmarais. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 2017.
“Eastwood’s Revenge,” Once Upon a Time…The Western: A New Frontier in Art and Film, exhibition catalog, eds. Thomas Smith and Mary Desmarais. Montreal: Montreal Museum of Fine Art, 2017.
"Don't Be Too Quick to Dismiss Them: Authorship in the Westerns of Delmer Daves." ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves. Eds. Matthew Carter and Andrew Patrick Nelson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 48-62.
"Introduction: 'No One Would Know It Was Mine: Delmer Daves, Modest Auteur." With Matthew Carter. ReFocus: The Films of Delmer Daves. Eds. Matthew Carter and Andrew Patrick Nelson. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2016. 1-47.
“Hollywood Westerns: 1930s to the Present.” A History of Western American Literature. Ed. Susan Kollin. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015.
“Franchise Legacy and Neo-Slasher Conventions in Halloween H20.” Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher. Ed. Wickham Clayton. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
“Trick ‘R Treat, The Cabin in the Woods and the Defense of Horror’s Subcultural Capital.” Slayage: The Journal of the Whedon Studies Association 10, 2 (January 2014): n. page. Web.
“Introduction: The American Western, 1990-2010” and “Revisionism 2.0? Unforgiven and the Hollywood Western of the 1990s.” Contemporary Westerns: Film and Television since 1990. Ed. Andrew Patrick Nelson. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2013. xiii-xxi and 15-30.
“Only a Woman After All? Gender Dynamics in the Westerns of Barbara Stanwyck.” Love in Western Film and Television. Ed. Sue Matheson. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. 19-33.
“All About Erin: Responsibility and Self-Centered Narration in Erin Brockovich.” The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh. Eds. R. Barton Palmer and Steven M. Sanders. Lexington, KY: University of Kentucky Press, 2011. 159-172.
“Traumatic Childhood Now Included: Todorov’s Fantastic and the Uncanny Slasher Remake.” American Horror Film: The Genre at the Turn of the Millennium. Ed. Steffen Hantke. Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2010. 103-118.
“Cinema from Attractions: Story and Synergy in Disney’s Theme Park Movies.” Cinephile 4, 1 (Summer 2008): 36-41. Also online.