Areas of Research/Interest: U.S. and European cinema; French romanticism; narrative and readership; cinema and stylistics; studio system; cultural history.

Fellowships/Honors: Fulbright; National Endowment for the Humanities; French Government, American Council of Learned Societies.

Select Publications:

Lillian Gish: Her Legend, Her Life (Scribner 2001)

Sets in Motion: Art Direction and Film Narrative, with Mirella Jona Affron (Rutgers University Press, 1995)

Fellini's "8 1/2" (Rutgers University Press, 1987)

Divine Garbo (Ramsay, 1985)

Cinema and Sentiment (University of Chicago Press, 1982)

Star Acting: Gish, Garbo, Davis (E. P. Dutton, 1977)

A Stage for Poets: Studies in the Theater of Hugo and Musset (Princeton University Press, 1971)

Patterns of Failure in "La Comédie humaine" (Yale University Press, 1966).