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)