I have published broadly on a range of topics relating to American independent cinema and cult Japanese cinema. I am the author of Performance in the Cinema of Hal Hartley and have also published several journal articles and book chapters on Hartley’s films and actors associated with his work. In 2018, my book Transnational Cinema: An Introduction was released, giving an overview of how cinema has changed in the era of globalisation and the intensification of border-crossing. Other published work covers issues relating to the reception and promotion of Japanese cinemas in the UK, especially the films of Takashi Miike and the kaiju eiga (monster movie). My most recent books look at the global spread of the monster movie, from Godzilla to the cycle of Legendary Monsterverse films, and transnational monstrosity. They chart shifts in global cultural power and the ways in which popular cinema engages with tropes of transnational anxiety. Along with Martin Hall and Lauren Stephenson, I was co-investigator on the Cinema and Social Justice Filmmaking project. Funded by the Screen Industries Growth Network, the project investigates how cinema engages audiences with questions of social justice and how young people understand faces that aim to challenge the status quo. The project also aims to inspire students to tell stories of their own experience with social justice topics. As part of the project, I co-executive produced the film Cost of Living. Commissioned by the project and made by the Yorkshire and North East Film Archives, the film reveals our collective memories of past economic crises, and the cries for social and economic justice that continue to ring so loudly in our ears today. The research project was nominated the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies Practice Research Award in 2023 and the film has played multiple film festivals across the UK. The film has also been featured on BBC’s Look North, ITV Calendar, BBC Radio York and in a number of regional and national publications, and won a FOCAL International award for Best Use of Archive in a Short Film.