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Publications & Papers
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Journal Publications
Academic Publications
Academic Publications
Sept. 2016 Review of the book Remake
Sept. 2015 Review of the book Spacefarers:
Images of Astronauts and
Cosmonauts in the Heroic Era of
Spaceflight in The Journal of
American Culture
Dec. 2013 Review of the book Kodak Elegy:
A Cold War Childhood in The
Journal of American Culture
Dec. 2010 Review of the book Cold War
Captives: Imprisonment, Escape,
and Brainwashing in The Journal
of American Culture
2007 Co-authored Article: “Citizens and
Enemies and Aliens, Oh My! Or,
How Latvia Gave Me An Alien Passport in the Country of My Birth” in International Journal
on Diversity in Organisations,
Communities, and Nations
2005 Article: “You Can’t Air that: An
Examination of Controversial
American Television Programming
and Censorship from 1967 to
2002” in International Conference
on Diversity in Organisations,
Communities, and Nations
Unpublished Conference Papers
2005 Tuned in, Turned on, and Kicked off: 'The
Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour' and the
Beginning of Socially-conscious Television
Do Not Relinquish the Right to Criticize:
‘Politically Incorrect with Bill Maher’
2002 Conjunction Junction, What Was Your
Function? The Use of ‘Schoolhouse Rock’ to
Quiet Critics of Children's Television
It's the End of the World, but Not As We Know
It: Examining Media-generated fears of (post-) Apocalyptic Futures.
2023 Book: Animated Mischief: Thirty
Years of Cartoon Subversiveness 1988-2018.
2023 Book Chapter: Daria: Still Standing on Our Necks, Then and Now. In Animated Mischief: Thirty Years of Cartoon Subversiveness 1988-2018
I.P. Book Chapter: “A Study in Red: The Curious Case of the Soviet Sherlock Holmes.” In “The game’s afoot!”: Sherlock Homes on Film/TV
2019 Book Chapter: “The Western Didn't Die, It Just Went Off-world: Guardians of the Galaxy and the Final Frontier” in
The Twenty-First-Century Western:
New Riders of the Cinematic Stage
2017 Book Chapter: “(Re-)visionist History in
Sergio Leone’s (De-)mythologized Old West:
The Civil War, Vietnam, and The Good, The
Bad, and The Ugly” in The American Civil War on Film and TV: The Blue and the Gray
2016 Co-authored Book Chapter: “This Is Not the
Mary Poppins I know!” P.L. Travers Goes to
Hollywood” in It’s the Disney version!
Popular Cinema and Literary Classics
2015 Book Chapter: “Always Bring Phasers to an
‘Animated’ Canon Fight: Star Trek’s
Animated Adventures on Saturday Mornings”
in Gene Roddenberry’s Star Trek: The
Original Cast Adventures
2007 Book: "You Can't Air That": Four Cases of
Controversy and Censorship in American
Television