Publications:

Books

Electric Dreamland: Amusement Parks, Movies, and American Modernity
Columbia University Press
2012
 
Memory Bytes: History, Technology, and Digital Culture
Duke University Press
2004
 
Television, History, and American Culture: Feminist Critical Essays
1999
 
For the Love of Pleasure: Women, Movies, and Culture in Turn-of-the-Century Chicago
1998
 
Seeing Through the Media: The Persian Gulf War
1994
 
Points of Resistance: Women, Power & Politics in the New York Avant-Garde Cinema, 1943-71
1991; 2nd edition (2003)

Research Interests: 

• American cinema
• Amusement parks and world's fairs
• Foodways