My work moves between a number of disciplinary locations, spanning both film theory and cultural studies. I have a special interest in media seriality – film and TV reboots and remakes, sequels and trilogies – and have authored and edited books on each of these topics: Film Reboots (co-edited with Daniel Herbert, 2020), Transnational Film Remakes (co-edited with Iain Robert Smith, 2017), Transnational Television Remakes (edited with Claire Perkins, 2016), Film Remakes, Adaptations and Fan Productions(co-edited with Kathleen Loock, 2012), Film Trilogies (co-edited with Claire Perkins, 2012), Second Takes: Critical Approaches to the Film Sequel (co-edited with Carolyn Jess-Cooke, 2010), and Film Remakes (2006).

I am founding co-editor (with Claire Perkins) of the book series, SCREEN SERIALITIES (2000–) for the prestgious Edinburgh University Press.

Since 1996 I have taught film and television studies at Monash University, initially in the Visual Culture program and (as of 2007) in a dedicated Film and Television Studies program (now Film and Screen Studies in the School of Media, Film and Journalism).

I have published widely in the areas of film and cultural studies, and my essays and reviews have appeared in edited collections, and journals such as Antithesis, Australian Studies, Continuum, Critical Arts, Framework, Film Criticism, Film Studies, Hitchcock Annual, Media International Australia, Screen (UK), Senses of Cinema, Studies in Australasian Cinema, and Studies in Documentary Film.

I am Associate Editor of several peer-reviewed journals, including: Academic Quarter, Film Criticism, and Film International. I am on the editorial board for books series including Adaptation and Visual Culture (Palgrave Macmillan) and Timcodes (Bloomsbury).

I have co-convened the international conferences including Telling Stories (Monash & RMIT U, 2006), B for Bad Cinema (Monash, 2009), Cinema at the End of the World (Monash, 2015) and The Uses of Cinema (Monash, 2018).

I have appeared as invited (fully sponsored) speaker at prestigous international conferences, including: Remake-Remodel conference (University of Göttingen, Germany, 2010), Memory and Mass-media (Trento, Italy, 2010), Media Across Borders (Roehampton U, London, 2012), Bestsellers and Blockbusters (Aalborg U, Denmark, 2013), Popular Seriality (University of Göttingen, Germany, 2013), Bis Repetita Placent?: Remakes, genre and gender (Université du Havre, France, 2014),  Seriality, Seriality, Seriality (Free University, Berlin, 2016); European Film Remakes (U of Ghent, Belgium, 2018) and Canonizing David Lynch (Seigen U, Germany 2019).

In 2014, I was Visiting Fellow at John-F.-Kennedy-Institut für Nordamerikastudien, Freie Universität Berlin, where I previewed work from on New Millennial Remakes.

I sm also known for my work in the area of Australian film studies.  I was Chief Investigator, with co-investigators Noel King and Deane Williams, on an Australian Research Council, Discovery Project that looked at the development of Australian Film Theory and Criticism in the decade long period 1975–85. The outcomes included a three volume set: Australian Film Theory and Criticism: Vol 1. Critical Positions (2013),  Vol. 2. Interviews(2014), and Vol. 3. Documents (2018). More recently I co-authored (with Adrian Danks, RMIT U) Australian International Pictures, 1946–1975 (2023).

Other recent and current projects include: Flaming Creatures (Columbia UP, 2020), and The Maltese Falcon (in preparation for British Film Institute's Film Classics series).