Happy autumn! Beginning the new season as Book of the Month (Social Sciences), September 2012.…

Please feel free to check out my review of Lawrence Schiller's first solo exhibit in the US, Marilyn & Me (Steven Kasher Gallery, May-June 2012).

It was truly an honor for me to speak at 92Y TriBeCa today. The subject of my talk was "Paris Onscreen." All my gratitude goes to everyone at 92Y for making this wonderful event happen and to all those who attended!! 

There was also a booksigning after the talk for my edited volume,…

I am thrilled that my edited collection, World Film Locations: Las Vegas, was recently reviewed, in French, in the following article: "Las Vegas, la ville simulacre."

The final…

I am delighted that my edited volume, World Film Locations: Paris, was recently reviewed at Subtitledonline.com. Please feel free to check out this comprehensive discussion of the book. Kindly find below some salient quotes from this review:

"There is something to cater…

World Film Locations: Paris was reviewed in The Journal of Tourism Consumption and Practice's special issue on "Creative Tourism" (vol. 4, no. 2, 2012). Here are some excerpts from the review:

“For it is the obsessive collection of film stills, of contemporary colour photographs of…

I was asked to contribute a review of "Diva" (Jean-Jacques Beineix, 1981) as a guest blogger to inaugurate Paris in Genres, a wonderful discussion about the great variety of films set in Paris. Check out my essay about "Diva" here!…

At the end of Michael Curtiz's Casablanca (1942), Rick (Humphrey Bogart) tells Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman), "We will always have Paris," a phrase that has been repeated in various contexts by not only movie buffs, but also by many other francophiles. Paris is…

My review of "Where Do We Migrate To?", the national touring multimedia exhibition curated by Niels Van Tomme, was recently published. My review of the show (and its catalogue) is entitled "The Aesthetics of Migration."

Unequal Before Death, an interdisciplinary collection of essays I co-edited, was recently published.…

Check out Visual Culture Blog for Marco Bohr's essay about "Koyaanisqatsi" which was published in my edited collection, World Film Locations: Las Vegas. …

World Film Locations: Las Vegas, a volume I edited, is published and now available in paperback. A huge thank you to the wonderful group of contributors and all those involved in the publication process of this book!…

I wish to share the exciting news that the Italian translation of my first edited collection, Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema, was recently published and is now available.…

It's a great honor for me to have been featured in the recent issue of The Sundial, the newsletter of Camp Rising Sun of the Louis August Jonas Foundation.…

World Film Locations: Paris and Dublin are now available!…

I was recently asked to give my thoughts about the question "Why Popular Culture Matters." My remarks and comments were subsequently published--kindly see them below. …

What a wonderful way to start the new year! Just received the news that my edited collection, Situating the Feminist Gaze and Spectatorship in Postwar Cinema, is selected as "Book of the Month" (the Arts) for January 2012!

Wishing everyone a very happy 2012 filled with much joy and success!…

The Directory of World Cinema: Eastern Europe, in which several articles of mine appear, was recently published. …

"World Film Locations: Paris" was recently featured on Marco Bohr's Visual Culture Blog.