Essays
2025. “Boys in the Sand (1971).” In Screening Adult Cinema. Routledge. [link]
2024. “Controversies, Protests, Coalitions: Screen Media’s Lessons from the Past.” In The Routledge Companion to Gender, Media, and Violence. Routledge. [link][pdf]
2023. “Queer Relay in Post-Millennial British Cinema.” Co-written with Cüneyt Çakırlar. In Atlas of Contemporary Queer Cinema: Europe 2000-2020. Meltemi. [link][pdf]
2022. “American Twink Story.” In Ryan Murphy’s Queer America. Routledge. [link][pdf]
2022. “Introduction to a Special Cultural Commons Section on It’s a Sin.” Co-written with João Florencio. European Journal of Cultural Studies. [link][pdf]
2022. “Kedi Ruhlar ve İntikam Peşindeki Hayaletler” [Feline Spirits and Vengeful Ghosts in Japanese Horror]. altyazı dergi. [link]
2020. “‘Cruising is a Picture We Sincerely Wish We Didn’t Have to Show’: United Artists, Blind-Bidding and the Controversy of William Friedkin’s Cruising.” In United Artists. Routledge. [link][pdf]
2020. “The Monogamous/Promiscuous Optics in Contemporary Gay Film: Registering the Amorous Couple in Weekend (2011) and Paris 05:59: Théo & Hugo (2016).” Co-written with Cüneyt Çakırlar. New Review of Film and Television Studies. [link][pdf]
2019. “Purging the Queer Archive: Tumblr’s Counterhegemonic Pornographies.” Co-written with Jacob Engelberg. Porn Studies. [link][pdf]
2018. “Hollywood Trade: Midnight Cowboy and Underground Cinema.” In The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema’s Most Celebrated Era. Bloomsbury. [link][pdf]
2017. “Not on Public Display: The Art/Porn Debate.” In The Routledge Companion to Media, Sex, and Sexuality. Routledge. [link][pdf]
2016. “Reaganite Cinema: What a Feeling!” In The Routledge Companion to Cinema and Politics. Routledge. [link][pdf]
2016. “Warhol and Nico: Negotiating Europe from Strip-Tease to Screen Test.” Journal of European Popular Culture. [link][pdf]
2016. “From A to E: Warhol’s Europe/Europe’s Warhol.” Journal of European Popular Culture. [link][pdf]
2016. “Publicity and Pathos: Andy Warhol’s Marilyn Diptych (1962) in Context.” Fashion, Film & Consumption. [link][pdf]
2015. “My Hustler at 50: Something Engaging To Listen To, Something Erotic To Look At.” Wuxia. [link][pdf]
2015. “Cruising as Another Way of Looking.” Wuxia. [link][pdf]
2014. “Bringing Out the Gimp: Fashioning the SM Imaginary.” Fashion Theory. [link][pdf]
2014. “Nothing Special: Warhol’s Childhood Scrapbook.” Medici University Blog. [link]
2014. “The Fetish Moment.” Co-written with Yvonne Trew. In Momenting the Memento: Fashion, Education & The City. Skira.
2013. “Bufferin Commercial.” In Andy Warhol in Ten Takes. British Film Institute. [link][pdf]
2013. “Introduction.” Co-written with Glyn Davis. In Andy Warhol in Ten Takes. British Film Institute. [link][pdf]
2013. “Digital Fashion Film.” In Fashion Cultures Revisited. Routledge. [link][pdf]
2013. “Heteros and Hustlers: Straightness and Dirtiness in Dirty Dancing.” In The Time of Our Lives: Dirty Dancing and Popular Culture. [link][pdf]
2013. “Queer Korean Cinema.” In Directory of World Cinema: South Korea. Intellect. [link][pdf]
2012. “Disco Sucks! Popular Music and Sex in the 1970s.” In Peep Shows: Cult Film and the Cine-Erotic. Wallflower Press. [link][pdf]
2012. “The Meaning of Messiness: The Shield and the Production of Television Style.” In Interrogating The Shield. Syracuse University Press. [link][pdf]
2012. “Hong Kong Action Cinema.” In Directory of World Cinema: China. Intellect. [link][pdf]
2011. “Greek Cinema without Greece: Investigating Alternative Formations.” In Greek Cinema: Texts, Histories, Identities. Intellect. [link][pdf]
2011. “Transamerica: The Road to the Multiplex After New Queer Cinema.” In Feminism at the Movies: Understanding Gender in Contemporary Popular Culture. Routledge. [link][pdf]
2010. “Η πρόσβαση είναι το παν: Η καλωδιακή τηλεόραση στην ψηφιακή εποχή” [Delivery is King: Cable TV in the Digital Era]. Co-written with David Woods. In Ψηφιακά Μέσα: Ο Πολιτισμός Του Ήχου Και Του Θεάματος. Kritiki. [link]
2009. “Scheduling Normativity: Television, the Family, and Queer Temporality.” In Queer TV: Histories, Theories, Politics. Routledge. [link][pdf]
2009. “Introduction: The Pleasures of the Tube.” Co-written with Glyn Davis. In Queer TV: Histories, Theories, Politics. Routledge. [link][pdf]
2009. “Sound and Music in Hong Kong Cinema.” In Sound and Music in Film and Visual Media. Continuum. [link][pdf]
2009. “Queer(ying) Lost.” Co-written with Glyn Davis. In Reading Lost: Critical Approaches. I.B. Tauris. [link][pdf]
2009 “Closer Than Ever: French Cinema and the Male Body in Close-up.” In Mysterious Skin: The Male Body in Global Cinema. I.B. Tauris. [link][pdf]
2008. “Fashioning Modernity: Hollywood and the Hong Kong Musical.” In East Asian Cinemas: Exploring Transnational Connections on Film. I.B. Tauris. [link][pdf]
2007. “Playing with Genre: An Introduction to the Italian Giallo.” In The Cult Film Reader. McGraw-Hill. [pdf]
2007. “All That Diaspora Allows: Film Between Queer and Diaspora.” In Transnational Lives and the Media. Palgrave Macmillan. [link][pdf]
2007. “Four Flies on Grey Velvet (4 mosche di velluto grigio).” In 100 European Horror Films: BFI Screen Guides. British Film Institute.[link][pdf]
2007. “Torso (aka I corpi presentano tracce di violenza carnale [Bodies Bear Traces of Carnal Violence], aka Carnal Violence).” In 100 European Horror Films: BFI Screen Guides. British Film Institute. [link][pdf]
2006. “Bruce Lee: Stardom and Identity.” Co-written with Dimitris Eleftheriotis. In Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press. [link][pdf]
2006. “Ozu and the Colonial Encounter in Hou Hsiao-hsien.” In Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press. [link][pdf]
2006. “Film Authorship and Taiwanese Cinema.” Co-written with I-Fen Wu. In Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press. [link][pdf]
2006. “The Post-Colonial Hong Kong Cinema.” In Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press. [link][pdf]
2006. “Japanese Cinema and Orientalism.” In Asian Cinemas: A Reader and Guide. Edinburgh University Press. [link][pdf]
2005. “Van Peebles, Melvin (1932-).” In France and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. ABC Clio. [link][pdf]
2002. “From Punctum to Pentazet, and Everything In Between.” Kinoeye. [link]
2000. “The Bird with the Crystal Plumage.” In Art of Darkness: The Cinema of Dario Argento. Flesh and Blood Press. [pdf]
