Expertise Summary

Expert in international cinema, Los Angeles culture and independent films

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• Author of Written Within and Without: A Study of Blake’s Milton (1979); Allegories of Cinema: American Film in the 60s (1989);  Power Misses: Essays across (Un)popular Culture (1996); The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geography of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles (2005); Rock ‘N’ Film: Cinema’s Dance With Popular Music (2016); and Power Misses II: Cinema, Asian and Modern (2021)
• Editor of To Free the Cinema: Jonas Mekas and the New York Underground (1991), The Hidden Foundation: Cinema and the Question of Class (1996); The Sons and Daughters of Los: Culture and Community in L.A. (2003); Stan Brakhage: Filmmaker (2005); Optic Antics: The Cinema of Ken Jacobs (2011) and Alternative Projections: Experimental Film In Los Angeles, 1945-1980 (2015)