- _Beyond a Hopeless Game: The New German Cinema and Its Fiftieth Anniversary_ (co-editor, 2005)
- _The Films of Wim Wenders: Beyond the Surface_ (2002)
- _American Dream: History and Ideology in the Hollywood Film from the 1920s to the 1970s_ (1997)
- _Fassbinder's Germany: History, Identity and Cultural Difference_ (1992)
- _Reading German Film: Texts and Contexts_ (co-editor, 2005)
- _Screening History: German Films from Pabst to Fassbinder_ (1989)
Contributions to Collective Volumes
- "'I Shall Create a New Germany!' Hitler and the Third Reich in Contemporary German Cinema," in _Hollywood as Mirror: American Cinema Reflects the World Today_ (2004)
- "Cinema in and of Weimar Germany," in _The Weimar Republic Sourcebook_ (1994)
- "Hollywood and the Third Reich," in _The Cambridge History of American Foreign Policy: Vol. 3, The Twentieth Century_ (1995)
- "Beyond Hollywood," in _The Encyclopedia of European Cinema_ (1995)
- "A History of German Film," in _Cinema: A Critical Dictionary, Vol. 1: The Major Film-makers_ (1995)
Articles in Scholarly Journals
- "The Third Reich in Contemporary German Cinema: Some Reflections on the Recent Debate," _New Review of Film and Television Studies_ 1, no. 1 (2003), 39-56
- "From 'Nation of Victim' to 'Nation of Perpetrators:' the Changing Discourse on National Identity in German Media and Film," _South Central Review_ 18, no. 2 (2001), 21-39
- "The Un-European Films: East German Cinema and Hollywood," in _Studies in Philosophy and the History of Philosophy_, Vol. 28, no. 3 (2001), 173-189
- "The Representation of the Weimar Republic in German Film," _New German Critique_ 78 (2000), 139-159
- "Reimagining Germany in Three Post-Wall German Films: _Das Versprechen_, _Die Stille nach dem Schuss_, and _Lola rennt_," _Comparative Literature Studies_ 35 (1998), 1-24
- "National Narratives: Germany and the Third Reich in _Hitlerjunge Salomon_, _Stalingrad_, and _Der Untergang_," _German Quarterly_ 70 (1997), 403-418
- "East German Cinema Re-discovered," _Sight and Sound_ (December 1989), 24-27