Recent Publications

I have been deeply engaged with film studies and film programming for many years, having particular interests in genre film, documentary, film history, and marginal film industries. My writing has been published in several journals and edited collections, and I’m currently working on my first book, tentatively titled Mondo Movies: A Genre History of Disreputable Documentaries.

Still image from <em>Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals</em> showing Emanuelle at a campsite with a group of white characters, being served unidentified pieces of meat by a Black servant

“Man, Too, Can Be Hunted”: Invoking / Disrupting Stereotypes of Savagery in Emanuelle and the Last Cannibals

Essay commissioned for The Black Emanuelle Bible (ed. Kier-La Janisse) – part of the Severin Films box set “The Sensual World of Black Emanuelle”

Newspaper advertisement for the film <em>Mondo Bizarro</em>

The Margins of Mondo: Tracing Genre through 1960s American “Mondo” Film Discourse

Article tracing uses of “mondo” as a genre signifier in American exploitation films of the early 1960s. Published in Film International, Volume 17, Issue 2, June 2019

A still from the film <em>Drum Wave</em>: a figure wears a brown cloak and carved light wood mask

Profile: Natalie Erika James

An interview with / profile of director Natalie Erika James, written for website Cut-Throat Women: A Database of Women Who Make Horror (April 2019)

A still from <em<Cannibal Holocaust</em>: a character eats a piece of cooked tortoise meat on a stick

Who Can Be Eaten? Consuming Animals and Humans in the Cannibal-Savage Horror Film

Chapter in What’s Eating You? Food and Horror on Screen, edited by Cynthia J. Miller and A. Bowdoin Van Riper (Bloomsbury, 2017).