Books:

• 2011 (forthcoming). French Theatre Today: The View from New York, Paris, and Avignon. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press. 522 pp. (typescript).


• 2002 Marcel Carné et l’âge d’or du cinéma français. Paris: L’Harmattan. 325 pp. Translated by Noel Burch.


• 1998 Hollywood Diva: A Biography of Jeanette MacDonald. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press. 467 pp. + xix. Paperback edition (University of California Press): Spring 2000.


• 1989 Child of Paradise: Marcel Carné and the Golden Age of French Cinema. Cambridge, MA. and London, England: Harvard University Press. 495 pp. + xi. Paperback edition (Harvard University Press): Fall 1992. Portions translated in Les Enfants du paradis, ed. Geneviève Sellier, Paris: Nathan, 1992.


• 1978 Baroque Fiction-Making: A Study of Gomberville's "Polexandre." Chapel Hill: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures. 166 pp.

Co-edited special issue of refereed journal:

• 2006 “Special Issue on Cinemas,” The French Review, vol. 79, no. 6 (May), pp. 1168-1350, twelve articles.

Papers in Refereed Journals:

• 2008 “The Sixty-first Avignon Festival (6-27 July 2007): A Tradition of Renewal, The French Review, vol. 83, no. 1 (October).


• 2007 “Isabelle Huppert; or, the Gallic Valkyrie Who Bewitched Brooklyn," Camera Obscura, no. 65, vol. 22, no. 2 (Fall), pp. 158-164.


• 2007 “The French Stage: 2006-2007,” The French Review, vol. 81, no. 1 (October), pp. 45-60.


• 2006 “A Year of Theater: 2005-2006,” The French Review, vol. 82, no. 1 (October), pp. 30-43.


• 1999 “Le ‘film maudit’ d’Agnieszka Holland, Rimbaud Verlaine et sa réception.”  Iris, no. 26, pp. 163-76.


• 1998 “Agnieszka Holland’s Total Eclipse, a Contemporary ‘Film Maudit.’” The French Review 72, no. 2, pp. 260-72.


• 1995 "Deriding the Voice of Jeanette MacDonald: Notes  on Psychoanalysis and the American Film Musical."  (Abridgment and revision of 1991 article.)  In Leslie C. Dunn and Nancy A. Jones, eds., Embodied Voices: Representing Female Vocality in Western Culture (Cambridge University Press), pp. 103-19.


• 1991 "Deriding the Voice of Jeanette MacDonald: Notes on Psychoanalysis and the American Film Musical." Camera Obscura nos. 25/26, pp. 225-49.       


• 1988 "The Politics of Cinematic Reception: Les Visiteurs du soir, Narrative Tempo, and the Debacle."  The French Review  61, no. 5, pp. 593-604.


• 1984 "On Teaching Malherbe."  Modern Language Studies XIV, no. 1 (Winter), pp. 65-69.


• 1981 "Verbal Game Play in Rotrou's La Soeur."  Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature VII, no. 15, pp. 359-64.


• 1980 "Marcel Carné's Deceptive Comedy: Drôle de Drame." Literature/Film Quarterly 8, no. 3, pp. 165-69.


• 1980 "The Film Adaptation of Cocteau's Les Enfants terribles." Cinema Journal 19, no. 2, pp. 25-40.


• 1979 "Comedy and Psychoanalysis: The Verbal Component."  Philosophy and Rhetoric 12, no. 2, pp. 95-113.


• 1978 "Scarron's Dom Japhet d'Arménie: Metaphor, Burlesque, and the Nature of Comic Language." Papers on French Seventeenth Century Literature, no. 10, pp. 33-50.


• 1976 "La Fontaine: mythologue et mythologicien."  French Literature Series 3, pp. 28-37.

Articles:

• 2009 “Marcel Carné,” in Célébrations nationales (Paris: Direction des archives de France/Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication).


• 2004 Program Notes for Jean-Marie Besset’s Grande Ecole, Jacques Doillon’s Raja, Richard Berry’s Moi, César, Arnaud and Jean-Marie Larrieu’s Un homme, un vrai, and Manuel de Oliveira’s Talking Film, French Film Festival, Museum of Fine Arts, June.


• 2002  “Language, Film, and Technology Workshop Aligns Humanities with Cambridge-MIT Institute,” co-authored with Douglas Morgenstern, Alex Chisolm, and Elizabeth Garrels, MIT Faculty Newsletter, October-November, p. 13.


• 2002 “Marcel Carné.”  Bio-critical article, Encyclopedia Americana, print edition.  Grolier Educational Corp


• 2002 “François Truffaut.” Bio-critical article. Encyclopedia Americana, print edition. Grolier Educational Corp.


• 2000 “Jeanette MacDonald and Gene Raymond: The Golden Couple’s Honeymoon House in Bel-Air.” Architectural Digest, special Oscar issue (April), pp. 342-45, 384-85.


• 2000 “Marcel Carné.”  Bio-critical article, Encyclopedia Americana, On-line.


• 2000 “Jeanette MacDonald.”  Bio-critical article. Encyclopedia Americana, On-line.


• 2000 “Louis Malle.” Bio-critical article. Encyclopedia Americana, On-line.


• 2000 “Jean Marais.” Bio-critical article. Encyclopedia Americana, On-line.


• 2000 “François Truffaut.” Bio-critical article. Encyclopedia Americana, On-line.


• 1999 Program Notes for “Jeanette MacDonald: Hollywood Diva,” film series at the Walter Reade Theater (Lincoln Center, NYC), 31 March-6April.


• 1997 Program Notes for Denis Langlois, The Escort, and for Karen Everett, I Shall Note Be Removed:  The Life of Marlon Riggs, 13th Annual Boston Gay and Lesbian Film/Video Festival, Museum of Fine Arts, June.


• 1994 Program Notes for "Landmark Technicolor Musicals: The Vagabond King  and Sweethearts," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, 4 March and 10 March.


• 1993 "Colorful, Yes; Nelson Eddy, No," The Washington Post (Letter to the Editor), 27 July 1993, p. A 16.


• 1992 "Speaking of Sex."  Civitas 1, no. 2, pp. 1-4.


• 1991 "Golden-Age Director Has New Film Ready."  San Francisco Chronicle, 2 May 1991, p. E 5.


• 1983 "Fan Club Fan." American Film 9, no. 9, p. 3.


• 1981 "A Conversation with Arletty."  American Film 7, no. 2, pp. 68-70.


• 1980 "Pagnol's Marseilles Trilogy."  American Film 6, no. 1, pp. 20-22.


• 1980 "Film Treasures of the Palais de Chaillot." American Film 5, no. 8 (cover story), pp. 18-20, 54-56.


• 1979 "The Birth of Children of Paradise." American Film 4, no. 9, pp. 42-49.

Reviews:

• 2000 Naomi Greene’s Landscapes of Loss:  The National Past in Postwar French Cinema.  The French Review, 73, pp. 1235-36.


• 1995 Richard Abel's The Ciné Goes to Town: French Cinema 1896-1914 .  The French Review, 69, pp. 177-78.


• 1992 Richard Dyer's Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film.  The French Review, 66, pp. 354-55.


• 1992 Hayward, Susan and Ginette Vincendeau, eds. French Film: Texts and Contexts. Film Quarterly, 45, pp. 58-60.


• 1992 Freddy Buache's Le Cinéma français des années 70.  The French Review, 65, p. 329.


• 1991 Robert Stam's Subversive Pleasures: Bakhtin, Cultural Criticism, and Film.  The French Review , 65, pp. 164-65.


• 1991 Claire Blakeway's Jacques Prévert: Popular French Theater and Cinema.  Film Quarterly, 44, pp. 57-58.


• 1990 Josée Cathala's Louis Jouvet.   The French Review, 64, pp. 373-74.


• 1990 Anne Gillain, ed.  Le Cinéma selon François Truffaut. The French Review , 63, pp. 1084-85.


• 1989 Pierre Brasseur's Ma Vie en vrac and Saturnin Fabre's Douche écossaise.  The French Review, 63, pp. 399-400.


• 1988 Louis Delluc's Ecrits cinématographiques I: Le Cinéma et les cinéastes.  The French Review, 61, pp. 644-45.


• 1987 François Garçon's De Blum à Pétain: cinéma et société française.  The French Review, 61, p. 309.


• 1987 Langlois, Georges P. and Glenn Myrent's Henri Langlois: premier citoyen du cinéma. The French Review, 61, pp. 136-37.


• 1985 Bandy, Mary Lea, ed.  Rediscovering French Film.  The French Review, 58, pp. 747-48.


• 1985 François Guérif's Le Cinéma policier français.  The French Review, 58, pp. 465-66.


• 1984 Jean-Pierre Bertin-Maghit's Le Cinéma sous Vichy: Les Films français de 1940 à 1944. The French Review,  57, pp. 442-43


• 1983 Kevin Brownlow's Napoléon: Abel Gance's Silent Classic.  The Movies 1, no. 4, p. 74.


• 1983 Richard Koszarski's The Man You Loved to Hate: Erich von Stroheim and Hollywood. The Movies 1, no. 1, pp. 81-82.


• 1980 "Balm of Gilliatt: Penelope Gilliatt's Three-Quarter Profile."  American Film 5, no. 10, pp. 60-61.


• 1979 "The Contemporary French Film Festival at MIT."  The French Review, 53, pp. 336-37.


• 1979 "History and Ideology: Sadoul's French Film."  The French Review, 52, pp. 498-99.


• 1978 Cecile Insdorf's Montaigne and Feminism.  The French Review, 52, pp. 342-43.


• 1978 Dudley Andrew's André Bazin.  The French Review, 52, pp. 342-43.


• 1978 "The Proust Screenplay."  Yale Daily News Magazine, 30 March, p. 16.


• 1978 "Films and Dreams: François Truffaut's La Nuit Américaine."  The French Review, 51, pp. 762-63.


• 1978 "Nature and Women: Jean Renoir's Une Partie de campagne."  The French Review, 51, pp. 447-48.