- _100 Years of Hollywood Cinema_ (New York: Black Dog & Leventhal, 2004)
- _Hollywood Vault: Film Archives Around the World_ (Los Angeles: Silman-James Press, 2010)
- _The Film Center Guide: A Listing of Film and Television Archives in the United States and Canada_ (Detroit: Gale Research Company, 1995)
Articles
- "The National Registry of Historic Films: A Retrospective on the First Seventy-five Years of the National Film Preservation Board" _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (2019)
- "The First Twenty-five Years of the National Film Preservation Board" _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (2010)
- “Saving and Preserving America's Film Heritage” _(New Republic Online)_ (December 16, 2008)
- "The Perils and Possibilities of Digitization: Preserving the Motion Picture Heritage" _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (2006)
- “Saving Our Cinema: The Importance of National Film Preservation” _(New Republic Online)_ (November 3, 2005)
- “The American Documentary as the Twentieth Century’s Art Form” _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (2005)
- “Remembering Raoul Walsh: A Centenary Tribute” _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (2004)
- “The American Genre Film: A Critical History” _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (2003)
- “Cinema and Social Change” _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (2003)
- "The Making of “The Last Train from Madrid”: History, Reality and Hollywood" _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (2000)
- "John Ford’s “The Grapes of Wrath”: Art, Politics, Literature" _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (1998)
- “The Importance of Film Archives: A Personal View” _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (1996)
- "The Birth of Hollywood" _(Historical Journal of Film, Radio, and Television)_ (1994)
- “The Hollywood Musical: Celebrating Seventy-five Years of Song, Dance, and Spectacle” _(New Republic Online)_ (November 10, 2004)