Assistant Professor of Media and Popular Culture
Communication Department, University of California, San Diego
PhD, Cinema and Media Studies
University of California, Los Angeles
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Books
Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture. UC Press, 2024.
Reviews: Public Books, Jacobin
Podcasts: American Prestige for The Nation, Money 4 Nothing, New Books Network
The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh: indie sex, corporate lies and digital videotape. Co-authored with R. Colin Tait. Wallflower Press/Columbia University Press, 2013.
Articles/Chapters
“Filmanthropy and the Financialization of Indie Film.” Oxford Handbook of American Film History. Oxford University Press. Forthcoming, 2025.
“From Copyright Cartels to Commons and Care: A Public Infrastructure Model for Canadian Music Communities.” Co-authored with Brian Fauteux and Brianne Selman. Partnership: the Canadian Journal of Library and Information Practice and Research 17.1 (2022).
“Independent Canadian Music in the Streaming Age: The Sound from Above (Critical Political Economy) and Below (Ethnography of Musicians).” Co-authored with Brian Fauteux and Brianne Selman. Popular Music and Society 45.3 (2022): 251-278.
Winner of Best Article 2023 from International Association for the Study of Popular Music - Canada
“Financialized Hollywood: Institutional Investment, Venture Capital, and Private Equity in the Film and Television Industry.” JCMS: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59.4 (2020): 54-84.
“ClipNotes in the Classroom: Film Annotation Software for Instruction and Collaboration.” Cinema Journal Teaching Dossier 3.3 (2016).
“Steven Soderbergh.” Oxford Online Bibliographies. Oxford University Press. 2015.
“The Cultural Capital Project: Radical Monetization of the Music Industry.” Co-authored with Ian Dahlman & Brian Fauteux. IASPM@Journal 3.1 (2013). International Association for the Study of Popular Music.
“The Hood Is Where the Heart Is: Melodrama, Habitus, and the Hood Film.” Habitus of the ’Hood. Eds. Chris Richardson and Hans Skott-Myhre. Intellect Press, 2011. 253-270.
“The Blend of History: Intertextuality, Broken Mirrors, and The Good German.” The Philosophy of Steven Soderbergh. Eds. Steven M. Sanders and R. Barton Palmer. University Press of Kentucky, 2010. 134-151.
“Joints and Jams: Spike Lee as Sellebrity Auteur.” Fight the Power!: The Spike Lee Reader. Eds. Janice D. Hamlet & Robin R. Means Coleman. Peter Lang, 2008. 345-361.
“The Geography of Melodrama, The Melodrama of Geography: The ‘Hood Film’s Spatial Pathos.” Cinephile 4.1 (2008): 58-65.
“It’s Up To You… No Really, It’s Up to You: Radiohead, Big Music, and the Future of the Record Industry.” The Business of Entertainment: Popular Music. Ed. Robert C. Sickels. Praeger Publishers, 2008. 133-153.
“The Global Social Problem Film.” Cinephile 3.1 (2007): 12-18.
Media Interviews
“Paramount Global employees describe a brutal year,” Forbes. December 31, 2024.
“Financializing Everything,” Money 4 Nothing podcast. December 21, 2024.
“The Financialization of Modern Media,” American Prestige podcast. December 16, 2024.
“The Rise of Film Franchises,” The Signal. November 14, 2024.
“Derivative Media: How Wall Street Devours Culture,” New Books Network podcast. October 27, 2024.
“The Life and Death of Hollywood,” cover story for Harper’s Magazine. May, 2024.
Interview concerning pandemic, music industry, and Spotify. ELMNT FM. Toronto. February 25, 2022.
Interview concerning news media and 2020 election. KCBS All News Radio. San Francisco. November 14, 2020.
“Dans Contagion, le méchant n’est pas le virus mais la nature humaine [In Contagion, the villain is not the virus but human nature].” Usbek & Rica. March 2020.
“Fascination with filmmaker inspires doctoral candidate’s book.” UCLA Daily Bruin. June 2013.
“Interview with Andrew deWaard and R. Colin Tait, Authors of The Cinema of Steven Soderbergh.” Columbia University Press Blog. May 2013.