Recent Publications
Books
Allan King's A Married Couple. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2010.
Programming Reality: Perspectives on English Canadian Television (with Aspa Kotsopoulos). Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.
Projecting Canada: Government Policy and Documentary Film at the National Film Board of Canada. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press, 2007
Journal Articles
"Dialogic Absurdity: TV News Parody as a Critique of Genre." Television and New Media 10.3 (2009): 294-308.
"The Courtroom and the Closet in The Thin Blue Line and Capturing the Friedmans." Screen (2008): 440-449.
"Documenting False History: Errol Morris and Mr. Death." Studies in Documentary Film 1.3 (2007): 207-220.
"The International Educational Cinematograph Institute, Reactionary Modernism, and the Formation of Film Studies." Canadian Journal of Film Studies 16.1 (Spring 2007): 80-97.
"'Remedy and Remediation: The Cultural Theory of the Massey Commission." Review of Education, Pedagogy & Cultural Studies 29.2/3 (2007): 159-74.
"International Cultural Relations as a Factor in Postwar Canadian Cultural Policy: The Relevance of UNESCO for the Massey Commission." Canadian Journal of Communication 31.1 (2006): 177-195.
"'Non-theatrical with dreams of theatrical': Paradoxes of a Canadian Semidocumentary film noir." Canadian Journal of Film Studies 12.2 (Fall 2003): 46-63.
Book Chapters
"Meeting at the Poverty Line: Government Policy, Social Work and Media Activism in the Challenge for Change Program," in Michael Brendan Baker, Thomas Waugh and Ezra Winton, eds. Challenge for Change/Societe Nouvelle: The Collection. Montreal and Kingston: McGill-Queen's University Press (2010).
"UNESCO, Film and Education: Mediating Postwar Paradigms of Communication," in Haidee Wasson and Charles Acland, eds. Useful Cinema: Expanding Film Contexts. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press (forthcoming).
"Cosmopolitans and Hosers: Notes on Recent Developments in English-Canadian Cinema," in Bart Beaty and Rebecca Sullivan, eds. How Canadians Communicate, 3rd ed. Edmonton: Athabasca University Press, 2010.
"Making a Mockery of Canadian Cinema: Interpreting the Rise of Mock-Documentary," in Paul Attallah and Leslie Shade, eds. Mediascapes: New Patterns in Canadian Communication, 3rd ed. Toronto: Nelson, 2009.
Z. Druick and A. Kotsopoulos, "Introduction," in Z. Druick and A. Kotsopoulos, eds. Programming Reality: Perspectives on English Canadian Television, 1-14.Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.
"Reaching the Multimillions: Liberal Internationalism and the Establishment of Documentary Film," in Lee Grieveson and Haidee Wasson, eds. Inventing Film Studies. Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2008.
"Laughing at Authority or Authorized Laughter? Canadian News Parodies," in Z. Druick and A. Kotsopoulos, eds. Programming Reality: Perspectives on English Canadian Television, 107-28. Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2008.
"Mobile Cinema in Canada in relation to British Mobile Film Practices," in Wolfram R. Keller and Gene Walz, eds. Screening Canadians: Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Canadian Film, 13-33. Marburg, Germany: Universitatsbibliothek, 2008.
"Representing the Local: Canadian Film Policy and Place," in Gary Sherbert, Anne Gurin, and Sheila Petty, eds. Canadian Cultural Poesis: Cultural Studies in Canada, 85-98. Waterloo: Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2006.