Books
- States of Emergency: Documentaries, Wars, Democracies (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2000)
- Reel Families: A Social History of Amateur Film (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), Art and Politics of the Everyday Series.
- Mining the Home Movie: Excavations into Historical and Cultural Memories, anthology co-edited with Karen Ishizuka (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2007).
- Public Domains: Cinemas, Visualities, Histories (Temple University Press, under contract, forthcoming).
- The Flaherty: Fifty Years in the Cause of Independent Cinema, cowritten with Scott MacDonald (in progress)


