Publications
Research monograph
New York City and the Hollywood Musical: Dancing in the Streets (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016).
Edited collections
Forthcoming:
Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema, co-edited with Aaron Hunter (Rutgers University Press, May 2023).
Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons, co-edited with Julie Lobalzo Wright (Bloomsbury, 2021).
Peer-reviewed journal articles
“The Comedy of Redevelopment: Romantic Comedy, Real Estate, and the ‘New’ Times Square,”
JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies (formerly
Cinema Journal) 60, no. 2 (Winter 2021): 105-128.
- shortlisted for the BAFTSS Award for Best Journal Article.
“A new way of living:
West Side Story, street dance and the New York musical,”
Screen 56, no. 4 (Winter 2015): 450-470.
“Sax and the City:
New York, New York (Scorsese, 1977), Urban Decline and the Jazz Musical,”
The Soundtrack 6, no.1 & 2 (March 2014): 53-66.
Chapters in edited collections
“
Xanadu and the Musical’s History of Failure,” in
The Oxford Handbook of the Hollywood Musical, edited by Dominic Broomfield-McHugh (Oxford University Press, 2022), 459-479.
“
Obvious Child, Bookshops, and Postcrisis Romcom Urbanism,” in
After “Happily Ever After”: Romantic Comedy in the Post-Romantic Age, edited by Maria San Filippo (Wayne State University Press, 2021), 163-178.
- collection nominated for the BAFTSS Award for Best Edited Collection.
“E-Q-U-I-T-Y: Generic Boundaries, Gender, and Real Estate in the
Magic Mike Films,” in
Musicals at the Margins: Genre, Boundaries, Canons, edited by Julie Lobalzo Wright and Martha Shearer (Bloomsbury, 2021), 41-54.
“The Secret Beyond the Door: Daria Nicolodi and
Suspiria’s Multiple Authorship,” in
Women Make Horror: Filmmaking, Feminism, Genre, edited by Alison Peirse (Rutgers University Press, 2020), 47-59.
- collection nominated for the Bram Stoker Award for Superior Achievement in Non-Fiction.
- runner-up for the Rondo Hatton Classic Horror Book of the Year Award.
- winner of the BAFTSS Award for Best Edited Collection.
- winner of the Best Non-Fiction Award at the British Fantasy Awards.
“’British People are Awful’: Gentrification, Queerness and Race in the US-UK Romances of
Looking and
You’re the Worst,” in
Love Across the Atlantic: US-UK Romance in Popular Culture, edited by Barbara Jane Brickman, Deborah Jermyn, and Theodore Louis Trost (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), 91-105.
“The Party’s Over:
On the Town,
Bells are Ringing, and the Problem of Adapting Postwar New York,” in
The Oxford Handbook of Musical Theatre Screen Adaptations, edited by Dominic McHugh (Oxford University Press, 2019), 87-107.
“Frances Doesn’t Live Here Anymore: Gender, Crisis, and the Creative City in
Frances Ha and
The Giant Mechanical Man,” in
The City in American Cinema: Film and Postindustrial Culture, edited by Johan Andersson and Lawrence Webb (Bloomsbury, 2019), 351-373.
Book reviews
George Rodosthenous, ed.,
Twenty-First Century Musicals: From Stage to Screen (Routledge, 2018),
Studies in Musical Theatre 12, no. 3 (December 2018): 405-406.
Criticism
“
Cats (Tom Hooper, 2019),”
Fantasy/Animation (10 January 2020)
https://www.fantasy-animation.org/current-posts/2020/1/8/review-cats-tom-hooper-2019
“
The Lizzie Bennet Diaries,”
Catcher in the Reel: Media Matters in Review (2 October 2014)
https://catcherinthereel.wordpress.com/2014/10/02/summer-web-series-series-the-lizzie-bennet-diaries/
