Original works • ''
The Warrior's Camera: The Cinema of Akira Kurosawa'' (1991, 2nd edition, 1999), Princeton University Press. •
Visions of Empire: Political Imagery in Contemporary American Films (1992), Praeger. •
Movies and Meaning: An Introduction to Film (1996; 6th Edition, 2012) •
Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies (1998), University of Texas Press. •
Screening Violence (2000), Rutgers University Press (Series: Rutgers Depth of Field Series). •
A New Pot of Gold: Hollywood under the Electronic Rainbow, 1980-1989 (2002), University of California Press (Series: History of the American Cinema, Book # 10) •
Classical Film Violence: Designing and Regulating Brutality in Hollywood Cinema, 1930–1968 (2003), Rutgers University Press. •
Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism (2009), Columbia University Press •
Digital Visual Effects in Cinema: The Seduction of Reality (2011), Rutgers University Press •
A Dream of Resistance: The Cinema of Kobayashi Masaki (2018), Rutgers University Press •
Digital Cinema (2019), Rutgers University Press. •
Apocalypse Cinema (2021 - published posthumously), Rutgers University Press.
As editor • ''Sam Peckinpah's 'The Wild Bunch''' (1998), Cambridge University Press (Series: Cambridge Film Handbooks). •
The Horror Film (2004), Rutgers University Press. •
American Cinema of the 1980s: Themes and Variations (2007), Rutgers University Press (Series: Screen Decades: American Culture/American Cinema)
DVD & Blu-ray commentary • Commentary on
Red Beard (2001),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
Ikiru (2003),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
Ran (2003), The Masterworks Edition. • Commentary on
Stray Dog (2003),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
Kagemusha (2004),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
Yojimbo (2006),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
Sanjuro (2006),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
Sword of Doom (2005),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
High and Low (2008),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
The Hidden Fortress (2013),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
Kwaidan (2015),
The Criterion Collection. • Commentary on
The Grand Duel Arrow Video ==References==