BOOKS
World Cinema and Cultural Memory (Palgrave Macmillan, 2015)
Reviewed in New Left Review, New Politics, Socialism and Democracy
Framing Faust: Twentieth Century Cultural Struggles (Southern Illinois University Press, 2005). Reviewed in Comparative Literature Studies, Socialism and Democracy, Das Argument, Goethe Yearbook Review, and others
Breaking the Frame: Film Language and the Experience of Limits. Indiana University Press, 1991. Reviewed in Choice, The French Review, Womanspeak, Feminist Bookstore News, Signs, and others
Languages of Revolt: Dada and Surrealist Literature and Film. Duke University Press, 1983. Reviewed in The Times Literary Supplement, University of Hartford Studies in Modern Literature, Film Quarterly, Journal of Modern Literature, The Centennial Review, World Literature Today, The French Review, Revue belge de philologie et d'histoire, and others
Translation of Michael Löwy, Franz Kafka, Subversive Dreamer (Univ. of Michigan Press, 2016)
DRAMATIC WORKS
Kafka in Palestine, equity staged reading in NYC, July 2017; staged reading at Community Church in Boston, fall 2018
The Eagle and the Cactus, staged reading by Theatre@First, Somerville (Feb. 2016); excerpt staged as part of New Plays Festival, Cambridge, Mass. May 2018.
Children of Drancy: a Montage of Voices, performed by the Northeastern Univ. Department of Theatre in October-November 2007 as well as in several other colleges, schools and synagogues
Children of Drancy DVD, distributed worldwide to Holocaust Museums and Memorials, 2009
The Paris Commune (translator of the English language version). Editions Steinval, Paris, 2009.
SELECTED ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
“The Cinematic Writing of Maurice Roche.” Visible Language 12 (1978): 341-80.
“Surrealist Metaphor: Frame Theory and Componential Analysis.” Poetics Today 4.2 (1983): 275-95.
“The Radio Plays of Franz Mon: Concrete Sound.” Dada/Surrealism 12 (1983): 60-69.
“The Surrealist Inheritance of Franz Mon and Maurice Roche.” Proceedings of the Tenth Congress of the International Comparative Literature Association. New York: 20-24 August 1982.
“Raymond Queneau mytholomane” (“The Myth Maker Raymond Queneau”). Temps mêlés (Belgium) 25-28 (1985): 145-55.
“Form and Meaning in the French Film, IV: Language.” The French Review 58 (1984): 223-35.
“The Myth of the Perfect Woman: Cinema as machine célibataire.” L'Esprit créateur 26.4 (l986):26-37.
“Constellated Visions: Man Ray's L'Étoile de mer” in Rudi Kuenzli, Ed. Dada and Surrealist Film (New York: Willis Locker & Owens, 1987): 99-109.
“Afterword,” Pierrot mon ami, trans. Barbara Wright (Elmwood Park, Illinois: Dalkey Archive Press, 1987).
“L'Étoile de mer: Notes on the Manuscript,” in Rudi Kuenzli, Ed. Dada and Surrealist Film, 207-19.
“Film Writing and the Experience of Limits,” in The Senses of Stanley Cavell, Ed. Richard Fleming and Michael Payne (Lewisburg: Bucknell Univ. Press, 1989).
“Raymond Queneau et la peinture,” in Raymond Queneau encyclopédiste?, Ed. Mary-Lise Billot (Paris:Editions du Limon, 1990): 195-212.
“The Insurgent Writing of Gisèle Prassinos,” in Dada/Surrealism 18 (1990): 27-31; this issue was reprinted in book form (MIT Press) and also appeared in Chinese translation in 1996. My translations of Prassinos appeared in the same issue.
“Méliès the Magician,” in A Trip to the Movies: Georges Méliès Filmmaker and Magician (1861-1938), Ed. Paolo Cherchi Usai (Rochester: International Museum of Photography George Eastman House, 1991).
“Jean Luc Godard’s Hail Mary: Cinema’s Virgin Birth,” in Maryel Locke and Charles Warren, Eds., Hail Mary: Women and the Sacred in Film (Carbondale: Southern Illinois Univ. Press, 1993).
“Always Just Over the Horizon: The East German Intellectual and the Elusive Public Sphere.” Socialism and Democracy 16/17 (1993): 59-75. Reprinted in Marxism in the Postmodern Age (NY: Guilford Books, 1994).
“Identity and Politics: Berlin Film Festival '93.” Jump Cut 38 (1993): 123-26.
“Transnational Corporate Culture and Cultural Resistance.” Socialism and Democracy 18 (Spring 1995):151-64.
“Black Independent Film: an interview with Haile Gerima.” Socialism and Democracy 20 (Summer 1996): 119-27.
“Quelques réflexions à la fois comiques et sérieuses sur Raymond Queneau et le cinéma.” Pleurire avec Queneau: Temps mêlés (Belgium), No. 150 + 65-68 (1997): 249-56.
“Surrealistische Aesthetik im Film—Charlie Chaplin, Sergeij Eisenstein und Louis Aragon.” [“Cinematic Aspects of Surrealist Aesthetics”] Weg und Ziel (Austria), 55.2 (May 1997): 25-31.
“Fotomontage,” in Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, ed. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Vol. 4 (Berlin: Argument Verlag, 1999) 745-53.
“Faustische Pakte: Bilder des Fortschritts in der Popularkultur des USA.” [Faustian Bargains: Images of Progress in US Popular Culture] Das Argument. Zeitschift für Philosophie und Sozialwissenschaften 230, Vol. 41.2/3 (1999) 396-404.
“Faust and Utopia: Socialist Visions.” Socialism and Democracy 25, 1999: 47-72.
“Illusion,” Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, ed. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Vol. 6/I (Berlin: Argument Verlag, 2004) 780-88.
“Karikatur,” Historisch-Kritisches Wörterbuch des Marxismus, ed. Wolfgang Fritz Haug, Vol. 6/I (Berlin: Argument Verlag, 2006) [with co-author Peter Jehle], 388-96.
“The Aesthetics of Resistance: Thoughts on Peter Weiss,” Socialism and Democracy 41, 2006: 69-78.
“Killer of Sheep and Black Independent Film,” Socialism and Democracy 42, 2007: 133-143.
“Stan Brakhage’s Film Testament: The Four Faust Films,” in Alexander Graf, Ed., Avant-Garde Film (Amsterdam: Rodopi, 2007)
“Gewalt und ‘performative Erinnerung’ in der Konstruktion palästinenischer Identität,” Das Argument 288 (2010), 142-253.
“Drancy: History, Memory, Representation.” Online under “Ressources” at the Fondation Auschwitz, Belgium.
“The Nakba and the construction of identity in Palestinian film,” Jump Cut 53 (summer 2011).
“Amnesiac Memory: Hiroshima and Nagasaki in Japanese Film,” Jump Cut 55 (fall 2013).
“Forward Dreaming in Cuban Film: The Work of Tomás Gutierrez Alea,” Socialism and Democracy 27 n. 2 (2013): 65-81
“Prison Films: An Overview,” Socialism in Democracy 28 no. 3 (2014): 203-7.
“Raymond Queneau: The Blue Flowers,”in The Syllabus, ed. G.N. Forester and M.J. Nicholls (Singapore: Verbivoracious Press, 2015), 40-42.