depictions of unions and radicals in American film
social, political and economic factors that have shaped America, including immigration, industrialization, urbanization, war, poverty, crime, politics and success, as well as race, class and gender conflict
visual culture
American Nazism and fascism
Additional Information
Author of Workers on the Edge: Work, Leisure and Politics in Industrializing Cincinnati, 1788-1890 (1987), Working Class Hollywood: Silent Film and the Shaping of Class in America (1998) and Hollywood Left and Right: How Movie Stars Shaped American Politics (2011)
Author of forthcoming Hitler in Los Angeles: How Jews Foiled Nazi Plots Against Hollywood and America (fall 2017 Bloomsbury Press)