My research interests fall under the general heading of "film and society." These interests, which overlap to some extent, include the film representation of people with physical disabilities, the film/TV construction of evil, early women filmmakers and their productions, John Sayles' 1987 film Matewan, the popular-culture icon John Barrymore, and selected Disney films. My work has been published in such journals as Journal of Film and Video, Wide Angle, Film & History, Film Criticism, Leonardo: Journal of the International Society for the Arts, Sciences, and Technology, Paradoxa, Offscreen, and Millennium Film Journal and in numerous anthologies and encyclopedias. I am most decidedly a film historian, and virtually all of my scholarly work has addressed various intersections of film and society from a historical perspective.