Current Work

Cheerful Nihilism: The Films of Frank Tashlin, forthcoming from Wesleyan University Press, 2008. A revised and expanded edition of my Ph.D. dissertation.
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This Is Spinal Tap, forthcoming from Wallflower Press, 2007. (Series editors: Ernest Mathijs and Jamie Sexton.) One of the first six volumes in an upcoming series of books on cult films. The book offers a textual analysis of This Is Spinal Tap, places the film in the context of its critical and popular reception, and examines its lasting “cult” legacy.

“Tish-Tash in Cartoonland,” forthcoming. To be published in a book-length anthology, co-edited by Charlie Keil and Daniel Goldmark, on the relationship between animation and comedy.

“From Monkey to Maudlin: Jerry Lewis in the Films of Frank Tashlin”; forthcoming. To be published in a book-length anthology of papers from the 2005 Media Stardom Conference.