-PUBLICATIONS-
- The Dynamics of Celluloid on the Road to Independence: Unilever and Shell in Colonial Nigeria, Netherlands Institute for
Sound and Vision, Hilversum, 2017.
- Distributing Silent Film Serials. Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation. Routledge, New York 2011. Also
available in reprint edition paperback (2016).
-CONTRIBUTION TO BOOKS-
- “Shaping Iron, Steel and Mirrors: Filming Men and Women Working at the Hoogovens.” Steel in Industrial Films: Corporate
Communications in Europe. Ed. Dieter Ziegler, expected Autumn 2022.
- “Framing Local and International Sentiments and Sounds: Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell in a Changing Nigeria.” Films That
Work Harder. Eds. Vinzenz Hediger and Yvonne Zimmerman. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, expected Autumn
2022.
- “Creating Partners in Progress. Shell Communicating Oil During Nigeria’s Independence.” Petrocinema: Sponsored Film and the
Oil Industry. Eds. Marina Dahlquist and Patrick Vonderau. Bloomsbury, London 2021.
- “Cinematic X-Rays: Science and the Friction of Spectacle.” Play & Prosume. Technology, Exchange and Flow. Eds. Margarete
Jahrmann and Brigitte Felderer. Verlag fur moderne Kunst, Nurnberg 2013. 47-53.
- “Changing Views and Perspectives: Translating Pearl White’s American Adventures in Wartime France.” Exporting Perilous
Pauline: Pearl White and the Serial Film Craze. Ed. Marina Dahlquist. University of Illinois Press, Chicago 2013. 25-45
- “Vom Beiprogramm zum Hauptprogramm: Distribution und Transformation US-amerikanischer Stummfilmserials in den
Niederlanden.” Serielle Formen. Eds. Robert Blanchet en Kristina Köhler. Schüren Verlag Marburgs, Marburg 2011.
319-336.
- “Films from Beyond the Well: Documenting the World of Shell.” Films That Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of
Media. Eds. Vinzenz Hediger and Patrick Vonderau. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2009. 243-255.
Download book.
- “Localizing Serials. Translating Daily Life in Les Mystères de New-York.” Early Cinema and the National. Ed. Richard Abel.
John Libbey Publishing, Eastleigh 2008. 215-225.
- “Monopolizing Episodic Adventures: Series and Seriality in Germany, 1914-1920.” Networks of Entertainment: Early Film
Distribution from 1895-1915. Eds. Frank Kessler and Nanna Verhoeff. John Libbey Publishing, Eastleigh 2007. 180-190.
- “From Oil to Celluloid: A History of Shell Films.” A History of Royal Dutch Shell, vol. 4. Ed. Jan Luiten van Zanden. Oxford
University Press, Oxford 2007. 6-33.
- “Featuring on Stage: American Prologues from the 1920s.” Film's Thresholds. Eds. Veronica Innocenti and Valentina Re.
Forum, Udine 2004. 309-20.
- “Adapting Film Serials: Multiple Cultural Models for the Cliffhanger in the 1910s and 1920s.” Film and its Multiples. Ed. Anna
Antonini. Forum, Udine 2003. 269-82.
-PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL-
- “Numbing the Senses and Spoiling the Brain: Transforming American Serials in the Netherlands,” Literatur in Wissenschaft und
Unterricht XLVII.1/2 (2014): 25-38.
- “De serial in Nederland: 1915-1925: De unieke opkomst en ondergang van een aangepaste filmvorm.” Tijdschrift voor
Mediageschiedenis IV.1 (2001): 108-28.
-PRESENTATIONS-
- Women and the Silent Screen XI: Women, Cinema and World Migration, 1-5 June 2022, New York, ‘Distributing Thrills and
Stars. American Serials and their Queens in Japan.’
- Energy Imaginaries: Public Relations and Moving Images, 21-22 October 2021, Stockholm University, ‘A New Flame In the
Netherlands: Promoting Natural Gas.’
- Reception and Practice of Early Cinema in East Asia: Comparative Film History of China, Japan, Korea, 9-11 October 2019,
symposium organized by the Korean Film Archive, ‘Thrills, Power, Speed, and Stars. Distributing and Promoting Silent Film
Serials in Japan.’
- Association of Adaptation Studies, Annual Conference, 27-28 September 2018, University of Amsterdam, “Fan Vidding and
Entertainment Franchises: Alternative Timelines, Careful Comments and Passionate Shippings”
- Petrocultures 2018: Transitions, 29 Aug.-1 September 2018, University of Glasgow, ‘Filming Petroleum: Prospecting,
Progress and the Public’.
- NECS: Media Tactics and Engagement, 27-29 June 2018, University of Amsterdam, ‘Vidding: Engaging Serial Narratives,
Distribution and Memory on the Remixed Screen’.
- Steel in Industrial Films: Corporate Communications in Europe, 8-10 September 2017, Oberhausen, Germany: ‘Shaping
Steel and Mirrors: Filming Men and Women Working in the Dutch Steel Industry.’
- EOGAN: Transition in Energy History, 1-2 June 2017, Paris, France: ‘Film and Oil: Prospecting for Science, Technology and
Progress.’
- SERCIA 2016: Cinema and Seriality, 8-10 September 2016, Université Paris Diderot, France: ‘Vidding: Serial Love, Hate, and
Memory on the Remixed Screen.’
- Films That Work: The Circulations of Industrial Cinema, 15-18 December 2015, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany:
‘Framing Local and International Sentiments: Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell Imagining Change and Tradition in Nigeria.’
- The Sponsored Film, 5-6 November 2015, symposium Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum: ‘Highlife,
Calypso, and Local Voices on the Road to Independent Nigeria. The Dynamics of Music and Voiceover in Industrial Film by
Shell and Unilever.’
- Drilling through the Screen: Modern Imaginaries and the Oil Industry, 1- 2 October 2015, Stockholm, Sweden: ‘Becoming
Partners in Progress: Shell/BP Communicating Oil and Change During Nigeria’s Independence.’
- Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) event Uses of the Past, 29 January 2015, Tallinn, Estonia: ‘The Cultural
Dynamics of Advertising the Local, the Nation and the World. Consumption, Identity, and Transformation within Advertising.’
- To be Continued… Serials, Series and Sequential Viewing, 5 June 2014, Norwich, University of East Anglia: ‘Fascinating the
Eye, Repulsing the Brain: Never Ending American Silent Serials.’
- Visible Evidence XX, 15-18 August 2013, Stockholm, Sweden: ‘Frameworks for Post-colonial Nations: The Imagining of
Technology, Science and Progress.’
- Play & Prosume. Technology, Exchange and Flow, 5-17 March 2013, Vienna, Austria: ‘Screening Cinematic X-Rays: Science
and the Friction of Spectacle.’
- TV Series Redux: Recycling, Remaking, Resuming, 12-14 September 2012, Université de Rouen, France: ‘Vidding: Love,
Hate, Memory and Appropriation on the Remixed Television Screen.’
- Screen Studies Conference: Other Cinemas, 29 June-1 July 2012, Glasgow, UK: ‘Oil Rivers and Celluloid Awakenings:
Imagining Technology, Science and Change in West Africa.’
- Screening the Sublime. The Technology, Exchange and Flow Expert Seminar, 21 January 2012, Plymouth University: ‘The
Dynamics of Celluloid: Industrial Images and the Visualisation of Technology, Science and Innovation’
- Play and Prosume. The Technology, Exchange and Flow Expert Seminar, 13 July 2011, Vienna, Austria: ‘The Revealing Eye:
Imagining Technologies and Progress in Science.’
- Offshore Media, the Norwegian Oil Museum, 16-17 December 2010, Stavanger, Norway: ‘Shell: Industrial Films and its
History.’
- The Sponsored Film: From Celluloid to Magnetic Tape, to Bits and Bytes, symposium Netherlands Institute for Sound and
Vision, 2-3 December 2010, Hilversum: ‘Viewing Industrial Images and Expanding Visions. Detection and Registration on
Celluloid.’
- Fifth Amsterdam Workshop, Netherlands Filmmuseum: The Images that Changed Your Life: Advertising Films, 19-21
November 2009, Amsterdam: ‘Oil, Celluloid, and Societal Goals: Filming Shell.’
- Lecture for the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), 16 January 2008, Utrecht University: ‘From Oil to Celluloid: A
History of Shell Films.’
- Domitor conference, 29 May-2 June 2006, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan: ‘Localizing Serials: Translating
Spectacle and Daily Life in Les Mystères de New-York.’
- Cinema in Context. Sharing Histories of Moviegoing, 20-21 April 2006, Amsterdam: ‘Taking the Mistress around the World:
Distributing Silent Serials.’
- Domitor conference, 18-21 June 2004, Utrecht University: ‘Distributing Films in Parts: Series and Seriality in Germany,
1914-1919.’
- X International Film Studies Conference: Limina, Film’s Thresholds, 16-23 March 2003, Udine, Italy: ‘Featuring on Stage:
American Prologues from the 1920’s.’
- IX International Film Studies Conference: Film and its Multiples, 20-23 March. 2002, Udine, Italy: ‘Adapting Film Serials:
Multiple Cultural Models for the Cliffhanger in the 1910s and 1920s.’
- The Dynamics of Celluloid on the Road to Independence: Unilever and Shell in Colonial Nigeria, Netherlands Institute for
Sound and Vision, Hilversum, 2017.
- Distributing Silent Film Serials. Local Practices, Changing Forms, Cultural Transformation. Routledge, New York 2011. Also
available in reprint edition paperback (2016).
-CONTRIBUTION TO BOOKS-
- “Shaping Iron, Steel and Mirrors: Filming Men and Women Working at the Hoogovens.” Steel in Industrial Films: Corporate
Communications in Europe. Ed. Dieter Ziegler, expected Autumn 2022.
- “Framing Local and International Sentiments and Sounds: Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell in a Changing Nigeria.” Films That
Work Harder. Eds. Vinzenz Hediger and Yvonne Zimmerman. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam, expected Autumn
2022.
- “Creating Partners in Progress. Shell Communicating Oil During Nigeria’s Independence.” Petrocinema: Sponsored Film and the
Oil Industry. Eds. Marina Dahlquist and Patrick Vonderau. Bloomsbury, London 2021.
- “Cinematic X-Rays: Science and the Friction of Spectacle.” Play & Prosume. Technology, Exchange and Flow. Eds. Margarete
Jahrmann and Brigitte Felderer. Verlag fur moderne Kunst, Nurnberg 2013. 47-53.
- “Changing Views and Perspectives: Translating Pearl White’s American Adventures in Wartime France.” Exporting Perilous
Pauline: Pearl White and the Serial Film Craze. Ed. Marina Dahlquist. University of Illinois Press, Chicago 2013. 25-45
- “Vom Beiprogramm zum Hauptprogramm: Distribution und Transformation US-amerikanischer Stummfilmserials in den
Niederlanden.” Serielle Formen. Eds. Robert Blanchet en Kristina Köhler. Schüren Verlag Marburgs, Marburg 2011.
319-336.
- “Films from Beyond the Well: Documenting the World of Shell.” Films That Work: Industrial Film and the Productivity of
Media. Eds. Vinzenz Hediger and Patrick Vonderau. Amsterdam University Press, Amsterdam 2009. 243-255.
Download book.
- “Localizing Serials. Translating Daily Life in Les Mystères de New-York.” Early Cinema and the National. Ed. Richard Abel.
John Libbey Publishing, Eastleigh 2008. 215-225.
- “Monopolizing Episodic Adventures: Series and Seriality in Germany, 1914-1920.” Networks of Entertainment: Early Film
Distribution from 1895-1915. Eds. Frank Kessler and Nanna Verhoeff. John Libbey Publishing, Eastleigh 2007. 180-190.
- “From Oil to Celluloid: A History of Shell Films.” A History of Royal Dutch Shell, vol. 4. Ed. Jan Luiten van Zanden. Oxford
University Press, Oxford 2007. 6-33.
- “Featuring on Stage: American Prologues from the 1920s.” Film's Thresholds. Eds. Veronica Innocenti and Valentina Re.
Forum, Udine 2004. 309-20.
- “Adapting Film Serials: Multiple Cultural Models for the Cliffhanger in the 1910s and 1920s.” Film and its Multiples. Ed. Anna
Antonini. Forum, Udine 2003. 269-82.
-PEER REVIEWED JOURNAL-
- “Numbing the Senses and Spoiling the Brain: Transforming American Serials in the Netherlands,” Literatur in Wissenschaft und
Unterricht XLVII.1/2 (2014): 25-38.
- “De serial in Nederland: 1915-1925: De unieke opkomst en ondergang van een aangepaste filmvorm.” Tijdschrift voor
Mediageschiedenis IV.1 (2001): 108-28.
-PRESENTATIONS-
- Women and the Silent Screen XI: Women, Cinema and World Migration, 1-5 June 2022, New York, ‘Distributing Thrills and
Stars. American Serials and their Queens in Japan.’
- Energy Imaginaries: Public Relations and Moving Images, 21-22 October 2021, Stockholm University, ‘A New Flame In the
Netherlands: Promoting Natural Gas.’
- Reception and Practice of Early Cinema in East Asia: Comparative Film History of China, Japan, Korea, 9-11 October 2019,
symposium organized by the Korean Film Archive, ‘Thrills, Power, Speed, and Stars. Distributing and Promoting Silent Film
Serials in Japan.’
- Association of Adaptation Studies, Annual Conference, 27-28 September 2018, University of Amsterdam, “Fan Vidding and
Entertainment Franchises: Alternative Timelines, Careful Comments and Passionate Shippings”
- Petrocultures 2018: Transitions, 29 Aug.-1 September 2018, University of Glasgow, ‘Filming Petroleum: Prospecting,
Progress and the Public’.
- NECS: Media Tactics and Engagement, 27-29 June 2018, University of Amsterdam, ‘Vidding: Engaging Serial Narratives,
Distribution and Memory on the Remixed Screen’.
- Steel in Industrial Films: Corporate Communications in Europe, 8-10 September 2017, Oberhausen, Germany: ‘Shaping
Steel and Mirrors: Filming Men and Women Working in the Dutch Steel Industry.’
- EOGAN: Transition in Energy History, 1-2 June 2017, Paris, France: ‘Film and Oil: Prospecting for Science, Technology and
Progress.’
- SERCIA 2016: Cinema and Seriality, 8-10 September 2016, Université Paris Diderot, France: ‘Vidding: Serial Love, Hate, and
Memory on the Remixed Screen.’
- Films That Work: The Circulations of Industrial Cinema, 15-18 December 2015, Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany:
‘Framing Local and International Sentiments: Unilever and Royal Dutch Shell Imagining Change and Tradition in Nigeria.’
- The Sponsored Film, 5-6 November 2015, symposium Netherlands Institute for Sound and Vision, Hilversum: ‘Highlife,
Calypso, and Local Voices on the Road to Independent Nigeria. The Dynamics of Music and Voiceover in Industrial Film by
Shell and Unilever.’
- Drilling through the Screen: Modern Imaginaries and the Oil Industry, 1- 2 October 2015, Stockholm, Sweden: ‘Becoming
Partners in Progress: Shell/BP Communicating Oil and Change During Nigeria’s Independence.’
- Humanities in the European Research Area (HERA) event Uses of the Past, 29 January 2015, Tallinn, Estonia: ‘The Cultural
Dynamics of Advertising the Local, the Nation and the World. Consumption, Identity, and Transformation within Advertising.’
- To be Continued… Serials, Series and Sequential Viewing, 5 June 2014, Norwich, University of East Anglia: ‘Fascinating the
Eye, Repulsing the Brain: Never Ending American Silent Serials.’
- Visible Evidence XX, 15-18 August 2013, Stockholm, Sweden: ‘Frameworks for Post-colonial Nations: The Imagining of
Technology, Science and Progress.’
- Play & Prosume. Technology, Exchange and Flow, 5-17 March 2013, Vienna, Austria: ‘Screening Cinematic X-Rays: Science
and the Friction of Spectacle.’
- TV Series Redux: Recycling, Remaking, Resuming, 12-14 September 2012, Université de Rouen, France: ‘Vidding: Love,
Hate, Memory and Appropriation on the Remixed Television Screen.’
- Screen Studies Conference: Other Cinemas, 29 June-1 July 2012, Glasgow, UK: ‘Oil Rivers and Celluloid Awakenings:
Imagining Technology, Science and Change in West Africa.’
- Screening the Sublime. The Technology, Exchange and Flow Expert Seminar, 21 January 2012, Plymouth University: ‘The
Dynamics of Celluloid: Industrial Images and the Visualisation of Technology, Science and Innovation’
- Play and Prosume. The Technology, Exchange and Flow Expert Seminar, 13 July 2011, Vienna, Austria: ‘The Revealing Eye:
Imagining Technologies and Progress in Science.’
- Offshore Media, the Norwegian Oil Museum, 16-17 December 2010, Stavanger, Norway: ‘Shell: Industrial Films and its
History.’
- The Sponsored Film: From Celluloid to Magnetic Tape, to Bits and Bytes, symposium Netherlands Institute for Sound and
Vision, 2-3 December 2010, Hilversum: ‘Viewing Industrial Images and Expanding Visions. Detection and Registration on
Celluloid.’
- Fifth Amsterdam Workshop, Netherlands Filmmuseum: The Images that Changed Your Life: Advertising Films, 19-21
November 2009, Amsterdam: ‘Oil, Celluloid, and Societal Goals: Filming Shell.’
- Lecture for the Royal Netherlands Chemical Society (KNCV), 16 January 2008, Utrecht University: ‘From Oil to Celluloid: A
History of Shell Films.’
- Domitor conference, 29 May-2 June 2006, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan: ‘Localizing Serials: Translating
Spectacle and Daily Life in Les Mystères de New-York.’
- Cinema in Context. Sharing Histories of Moviegoing, 20-21 April 2006, Amsterdam: ‘Taking the Mistress around the World:
Distributing Silent Serials.’
- Domitor conference, 18-21 June 2004, Utrecht University: ‘Distributing Films in Parts: Series and Seriality in Germany,
1914-1919.’
- X International Film Studies Conference: Limina, Film’s Thresholds, 16-23 March 2003, Udine, Italy: ‘Featuring on Stage:
American Prologues from the 1920’s.’
- IX International Film Studies Conference: Film and its Multiples, 20-23 March. 2002, Udine, Italy: ‘Adapting Film Serials:
Multiple Cultural Models for the Cliffhanger in the 1910s and 1920s.’