Animated Personalities

My Research Projects

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“I’d Like to Thank All of the Little People… That Have Made My Performance Possible”: Cartoon Stars, the Voice, and the Construction of Animated Acting in DVD Character Commentary Tracks

In: forthcoming

‘If I can Change’: Multigenerational Cinematic Franchises, Retconning, and the Spectre of Rocky IV

In: Screen, forthcoming summer 2025

Cinephilia, Take Three?: Availability, Reliability, and Disenchantment in the Streaming Era

Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 30.3 (2024)

‘I’ll Get You, Tom and Jerry. And That Little Dog, Too!’: Adaptation, Transmedia, and Franchise Management in the Tom and Jerry and Wizard of Oz Crossovers

Adaptation 15.2 (2022)

“There’s Just No Point in Doing a Commentary Where Everyone’s Just Going to Sit and Criticize the Movie”: Auteurism and the Creation of Hoax “Unruly” Extra Features in the DVD Era

Quarterly Review of Film and Video 39.5 (2022)

No longer “As Crappy as Possible”?: Cult Sensibilities and the High-Definition Revisioning and “Unbleeping” of Early Seasons of South Park

New Review of Film and Television Studies 19.4 (2021)

Animated Personalities: Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts

University of Texas Press, 2019

Cuphead: Animation, the Public Domain, and Home Video Remediation

The Journal of Popular Culture 52.1 (2019)

Monochrome Mickey: Modern Nostalgia Texts and the Animated Star Image

Journal of Popular Film and Television 46.4 (2018)

Walt Disney Treasures or Mickey Mouse DVDs? Animatophilia, Nostalgia, and the Competing Representations of Theatrical Cartoon Shorts on Home Video

Animation: An Interdisciplinary Journal 13.1 (2018)

Nicolas Cage - Good or Bad? Stardom, Performance, and Memes in the Age of the Internet

Celebrity Studies 8.2 (2017)

“And They Lived Happily Ever After???!”: Disney’s Animated Adaptation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) and Fleischers’ Gulliver’s Travels (1939)

In: It's the Disney Version!: Popular Cinema and Literary Classics (2016)

Some of This Happened to the Other Fellow: Remaking GoldenEye 007 with Daniel Craig

In: Game On Hollywood!: Essays on the Intersection of Video Games and Cinema (2013)

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