Academic Monographs and Edited Collections
- American Graffiti: George Lucas, the New Hollywood and the Baby Boom Generation, London: Routledge, 2023, 118 pp, ISBN 9781138681910 (hbk), 9781315545509 (ebook) [9780367523060 for pbk to be published in 2024]
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (Second Edition with a new Foreword) (BFI Film Classics), London: British Film Institute, 2020, 116 pp, ISBN 9781838719807 (pbk), 9781838719784 (ePDF), 9781838719791 (ePUB)
- with Gary Needham, Yannis Tzioumakis and Tino Balio (eds), United Artists, London: Routledge, 2020, 304 pp, ISBN 9780367178987 (hbk), 9780367179007 (pbk), 9780429058332 (ebk)
- with Oliver Gruner (eds), “Grease is the Word”: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon, London: Anthem, 2020, 223 pp, ISBN 9781785271106 (hbk), 9781785279751 (2021 pbk)
- with Yannis Tzioumakis (eds), The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema’s Most Celebrated Era, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, 255+xxvii pp, ISBN 9781501337871 (hbk), 9781501337888 (pbk), 9781501337901 (ePDF), 9781501337895 (ebk)
- The General (BFI Film Classics), London: British Film Institute, 2016, 112 pp, ISBN 9781844579150
- with Tatjana Ljujic and Richard Daniels (eds), Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives, London: Black Dog, 2015, 384 pp, ISBN 9781908966421
- Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (BFI Film Classics), London: British Film Institute, 2014, 114 pp, ISBN 9781844577781
- A Clockwork Orange (Controversies), Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2011,165+xxx pp, ISBN 9780230302129
- 2001: A Space Odyssey (BFI Film Classics), London: British Film Institute, 2010, 116 pp, ISBN 9781844572861
- The New Hollywood: From Bonnie and Clyde to Star Wars, London: Wallflower, 2005, 129 pp, ISBN 1904764584
- with Lee Grieveson (eds), The Silent Cinema Reader, London: Routledge, 2004, 423 pp, ISBN 0415252830 (hbk), 0415252849 (pbk)
- with Alan Lovell (eds), Screen Acting, London: Routledge, 1999, 184 pp, ISBN 041518293X (hbk), 0415182948 (pbk)
Essays in Academic Journals and Edited Collections
- “The Story of Woody & Diane: Stars and Hit Patterns in the New Hollywood“, Remembering Annie Hall, ed. Jonathan Ellis and Ana-Maria Sanchez-Arce, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2023, pp. 39-56, ISBN 9781501358494 (hbk), 9781501358470 (eBook pdf), 9781501358487 (eBook Epub & Mobi)
- “The Past, Present and Future in 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)”, Medien/Zeiten. Interdependenzen (Media/Times. Interdependencies), ed. Sven Grampp, Peter Podrez and Nicole Wiedenmann, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, 2023, pp. 143-55, ISBN 9783658386870 (pbk), 9783658386887 (eBook)
- “Steamboat Bill, Jr. (1928)”, Screening American Independent Film, ed. by Justin Wyatt and W. D. Phillips, London: Routledge, 2023, pp. 31-9, ISBN 9781032160603 (hbk), 9781032160627 (pbk)
- “Dark Vision, Global Impact: Christopher Nolan, Box Office Hit Patterns and Interstellar“, A Critical Companion to Christopher Nolan, ed. Claire Parkinson and Isabelle Labrouillere, Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2023, pp. 197-211, ISBN 9781793652515 (hbk), 9781793652522 (ebk)
- “’One more fine technician for the Dream Factory’? George Lucas’s Early Film Career, 1964-1971”, Film History, vol. 34, no. 2 (Summer 2022), pp. 35-63, ISSN 0892-2160
- “'The Walt Disney Company, Family Entertainment, and Hollywood’s Global Hits”, The Oxford Handbook of Children’s Film, ed. Noel Brown, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2022, pp. 569-90, ISBN 9780190939359 (hbk)
- “Le futur de l’humanité, alors et maintenant” (The Future of Humanity, Then and Now), 2001, l’odyssee de l’espace: au carrefour des arts et des sciences (2001: A Space Odyssey: At the Crossroads of the Arts and Sciences), ed. Sam Azulys and Christopher Robins, Paris: Les Éditions de l’École Polytechnique, 2021, pp. 23-36, ISBN 9782730216975
- “Afterword: New Wave, New Hollywood, New Research”, New Wave, New Hollywood: Reassessment, Recovery, and Legacy, ed. Nathan Abrams and Gregory Frame, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp. 221-41, ISBN 9781501360404 (hbk), 9781501360381 (ePDF), 9781501360398 (ebk)
- with Filippo Ulivieri, “Kubrick’s Unrealized Projects”, The Bloomsbury Companion to Stanley Kubrick, ed. Nathan Abrams and Ian Q. Hunter, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021, pp. 327-36, ISBN 9781501343629 (hbk)
- “’She was the first’: The Place of Jaws in American Film History”, The Jaws Book: New Perspectives on the Classic Summer Blockbuster, ed. Ian Hunter and Matthew Melia, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2020, pp. 19-32, ISBN 9781501347528 (hbk), 9781501347542 (ePDF), 9781501347535 (ebk)
- “Hollywood in Germany/Germany in Hollywood”, The German Cinema Book (Second Edition), ed. Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Göktürk and Claudia Sandberg, London: BFI, 2020, pp. 479-91 (revision of chapter from first edition), ISBN 9781844575312 (hbk), 9781844575305 (pbk), 9781911239413 (ePDF), 9781911239420 (ebk)
- “Roland Emmerich”, The German Cinema Book (Second Edition), ed. Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter, Deniz Göktürk and Claudia Sandberg, London: BFI, 2020, pp. 492-3, ISBN 9781844575312 (hbk), 9781844575305 (pbk), 9781911239413 (ePDF), 9781911239420 (ebk)
- “’One of the United Artists’: Buster Keaton, Joseph Schenck and UA”, United Artists, ed. Peter Krämer, Gary Needham, Yannis Tzioumakis and Tino Balio, London: Routledge, 2020, pp. 19-37, ISBN 9780367178987 (hbk), 9780367179007 (pbk), 9780429058332 (ebk)
- with Oliver Gruner, “Introduction”, “Grease is the Word”: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon, ed. Oliver Gruner and Peter Krämer, London: Anthem, 2020, pp. 1-21, ISBN 9781785271106 (hbk), 9781785279751 (2021 pbk)
- “‘An easy winner’: The Marketing, Reception and Success of Grease”, “Grease is the Word”: Exploring a Cultural Phenomenon, ed. Oliver Gruner and Peter Krämer, London: Anthem, 2020, pp. 145-63, ISBN 9781785271106 (hbk), 9781785279751 (2021 pbk)
- “2001: Odissea nello spazio” (2001: A Space Odyssey) Stanley Kubrick, ed. Enrico Carocci, Venice: Marsilio Editori, 2019, pp. 64-84, ISBN 9788831785761
- with Yannis Tzioumakis, “Introduction”, The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema’s Most Celebrated Era, ed. Peter Krämer and Yannis Tzioumakis, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, pp. xiii-xxvii, ISBN 9781501337871 (hbk), 9781501337888 (pbk), 9781501337901 (ePDF), 9781501337895 (ebk)
- “’A Triumph of Aura over Appearance’: Barbra Streisand, Funny Girl (1968) and the Hollywood Renaissance”, The Hollywood Renaissance: Revisiting American Cinema’s Most Celebrated Era, ed. Peter Krämer and Yannis Tzioumakis, New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, pp. 53-69, ISBN 9781501337871 (hbk), 9781501337888 (pbk), 9781501337901 (ePDF), 9781501337895 (ebk)
- “‘Enter the World’: James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) and the Family-Adventure Movie”, Fantasy/Animation: Connections Between Media, Mediums and Genres, ed. Christopher Holliday and Alexander Sergeant, New York: Routledge, 2018, pp. 261-75, ISBN 9781138054370 (hbk), 9781315166919 (ebk)
- “An Angel in Hell: Artur Brauner and the Attempt to Make a German Oskar-Schindler-Biopic”, sinecine: Sinema Araştırmaları Dergisi/Journal of Film Studies, vol. 9, no. 1 (Spring 2018), pp. 45-80, ISSN 1309-5838,
- “Spiritual Science Fiction for the Whole Family: Spielberg, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and 1970s Hollywood”, Steven Spielberg, Hollywood Wunderkind & Humanist, ed. David Roche, Montpellier: Press universitaires de la Méditerranée, 2018, pp. 35-49, ISBN 9782367812649, ISSN 21186847; accessible at
- “Toy Story, Pixar and Contemporary Hollywood”, Toy Story: How Pixar Reinvented the Animated Feature, ed. Noel Brown, Susan Smith and Sam Summers, London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2018, pp. 2-20, ISBN 9781501324918 (hbk), 9781501324925 (ePDF), 9781501324932 (ebk)
- “From 2001: A Space Odyssey to Avatar: Reflections on Cultural Impact and Academic Research”, Screening the Past, no. 42 (October 2017), ISSN 1328-9756
- “Stanley Kubrick: Known and Unknown“, Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, vol. 37, no. 3 (September 2017), pp. 373-95, ISSN 0143-9685
- “Stanley Kubrick and the Internationalisation of Postwar Hollywood”, New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 15, no. 2 (June 2017), pp. 250-69, ISSN 1740-0309
- “Spielberg and Kubrick”, A Companion to Steven Spielberg, ed. Nigel Morris, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2017, pp. 195-211, ISBN 9781118726914 (hbk), 9781118726815 (pdf), 9781118726808 (ebk)
- “The Legacy of Dr. Strangelove: Stanley Kubrick, Science Fiction, and the Future of Humanity”, The Apocalypse in Film: Dystopia, Disasters, and other Visions about the End of the World, ed. Karen A. Ritzenhoff and Angela Krewani, Lanham, Md.: Rowman & Littlefield, 2016, pp. 45-60, ISBN 9781442260276 (hbk), 9781442260290 (ebk)
- “’I’ll be right here!’ Dealing with Emotional Trauma in and through E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial”, Children in the Films of Steven Spielberg, ed. Adrian Schober and Debbie Olson, Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2016, pp. 91-121, ISBN 9781498518840 (hbk), 9781498518857 (ebk)
- “The Movie Audience in the Archive”, Reflections on Archives, Museum and Special Collections, ed. Sarah Mahurter and Gustavo Grandal Montero, London: University of the Arts London, 2016, pp. 60-61, ISBN 9781906908423
- “’Could you tell us how to create a Star-Child?’: Special Effects, Science Fiction und Publikumsreaktionen auf 2001: A Space Odyssey”, Special Effects in der Wahrnehmung des Publikums: Beiträge zur Wirkungsästhetik und Rezeption transfilmischer Effekte, ed. Michael Wedel, Berlin: Springer VS, 2016, pp. 191-207, ISBN 9783531174655 (pbk), 9783531942124 (ebk)
- “Adaptation as Exploration: Stanley Kubrick, Literature and A.I. Artificial Intelligence”, Adaptation: The Journal of Literature on Screen Studies, vol. 18, no. 3 (December 2015), pp. 372-82, ISSN 1755-0637
- “’A film specially suitable for children’: The Marketing and Reception of 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968)”, Family Films in Global Cinema: The World Beyond Disney, ed. Noel Brown and Bruce Babington, London: I. B. Tauris, 2015, pp. 37-52, ISBN 9781784530082, eISBN 9780857735676
- with Tatjana Ljujic and Richard Daniels, “Introduction”, Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives, ed. Tatjana Ljujic, Peter Krämer and Richard Daniels, London: Black Dog, 2015, pp. 12-19, ISBN 9781908966421
- “’Complete total final annihilating artistic control’: Stanley Kubrick and Postwar Hollywood”, Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives, ed. Tatjana Ljujic, Peter Krämer and Richard Daniels, London: Black Dog, 2015, pp. 48-61, ISBN 9781908966421
- “’What’s it going to be, eh?’ Stanley Kubrick’s Adaptation of Anthony Burgess’s A Clockwork Orange”, Stanley Kubrick: New Perspectives, ed. Tatjana Ljujic, Peter Krämer and Richard Daniels, London: Black Dog, 2015, pp. 218-35, ISBN 9781908966421
- “The Making of an International Star: The Early Film Career and Star Image of Audrey Hepburn, 1948-1954”, Fan Phenomena: Audrey Hepburn, ed. Jacqui Miller, Exeter: Intellect, 2014, pp. 68-75, ISBN 9781783202065, eISBN 9781783202348 / 9781783202355
- “’Szanowny Panie Rezyserze…’: listowne reakcje widowni na film 2001: Odyseja kosmiczna w poznych latach szescdziesiatych” (Polish translation of “’Dear Mr. Kubrick’: Audience Responses to 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Late 1960s”, Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 [November 2009]), Badanie widowni filmowej - antologia przekladow (Film Audience Research: A Reader of Translations), ed. Konrad Klejsa and Magdalena Saryusz-Wolska, Warsaw: Wydawnictwo Naukowe Scholar, 2014, pp. 137-54, ISBN 9788373836815
- “Disney, George Lucas und Pixar: Animation und die US-amerikanische Filmindustrie seit den 1970er Jahren” (Disney, George Lucas, Pixar: Animation and the American Film Industry since the 1970s), Film-Konzepte, no. 33 (February 2014), pp. 6-21, ISSN 1861-9622, ISBN 9783869163338
- “The Politics of Independence: The China Syndrome (1979), Hollywood Liberals and Anti-Nuclear Campaigning”, Alphaville: Journal of Film and Screen Media, no. 6 (Winter 2013), ISSN 2009-4078, http://alphavillejournal.com/Issue6/HTML/ArticleKramer.html
- “’Mein Führer, I can walk!’ References to the Nazi Past in the Making and Reception of Dr. Strangelove (1964)”, Literatur in Wissenschaft und Unterricht, vol. 46, no. 2/3 (2013), pp. 143-62, ISSN 0024-4643, ISBN 9783826057038
- “The Good German? Oskar Schindler and the Movies, 1951-1993”, Hollywood’s Chosen People: The Jewish Experience in American Cinema, ed. Daniel Bernardi, Murray Pomerance and Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2013, pp. 125-40, ISBN 9780814334829 (pbk), 9780814338070 (ebk)
- “The Limits of Autonomy: Stanley Kubrick, Hollywood and Independent Filmmaking, 1950-53”, American Independent Cinema: Indie, Indiewood and Beyond, ed. Geoff King, Claire Molloy and Yannis Tzioumakis, London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 153-64, ISBN 9780415684286 (hbk), 9780415684293 (pbk), 9780203143704 (ebk)
- “’The Greatest Mass Murderer Since Adolf Hitler’: Nuclear War and the Nazi Past in Dr. Strangelove”, Dramatising Disaster: Character, Event, Representation, ed. Christine Cornea and Rhys Owain Thomas, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 120-35, ISBN (10) 1443842419, (13) 9781443842419 (hbk)
- “’Rape, Ultra-Violence and Beethoven’: The Transgressiveness and Controversial Success of A Clockwork Orange (1971)”, Film and Ethics: What would you have done?, ed. Jacqui Miller, Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2013, pp. 11-28, ISBN (10) 1443844160, (13) 9781443844161
- “’The ugly tide of today’s teenage violence’: Revisiting the Clockwork Orange Controversy in the UK”, Moral Panics, Social Fears and the Media: Historical Perspectives, ed. Sian Nicholas and Tom O’Malley, London: Routledge, 2013, pp. 210-29, ISBN 9780415501613 (hbk), 9780203386231 (ebk)
- “’To prevent the present heat from dissipating’: Stanley Kubrick and the Marketing of Dr. Strangelove (1964)”, InMedia, no. 3 (April 2013), ISSN 2259-4728, http://inmedia.revues.org/634
- “Fighting the Evil Empire: Star Wars, the Strategic Defense Initiative and the Politics of Science-Fiction”, Sex, Politics, and Religion in Star Wars: An Anthology, ed. Douglas Brode and Leah Deneyka, Lanham, MD: Scarecrow, 2012, pp. 63-76, ISBN 9780810885141 (hbk), 9780810885158 (ebk)
- “Das Boot/The Boat”, The Cinema of Germany, ed. Joseph Garncarz and Annemone Ligensa, London: Wallflower Press, 2012, pp. 197-205, ISBN 9781905674916 (hbk), 9781905674909 (pbk), 9780231501521 (ebk)
- “‘Black Is In’: Race and Genre in Early 1990s American Cinema”, Iluminace, vol. 24, no. 3 (2012), pp. 13-30, ISSN 0862-397X
- “’Movies that make people sick’: Audience Responses to Stanley Kubrick’s A Clockwork Orange in 1971/72”, Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, vol. 8, no. 2 (November 2011), pp. 416-30, ISSN 1749-8716 http://www.participations.org/Volume%208/Issue%202/3g%20Kramer.pdf
- “A Clockwork Orange (1971) and American Culture”, ZeitRäume: Potsdamer Almanach des Zentrums für Zeithistorische Forschung 2010, ed. Martin Sabrow, Göttingen: Wallsteinverlag, 2011, pp. 96-106, ISBN 9783835309388, ISSN 1868-2138
- “Steven Spielberg”, Fifty Contemporary Film Directors. Second Edition, ed. Yvonne Tasker, London: Routledge, 2011, pp. 372-80, ISBN 9780415497664 (hbk), 9780415554336 (pbk), 9780203844342 (ebk)
- “Hollywood and Its Global Audiences: A Comparative Study of the Biggest Box Office Hits in the United States and Outside the United States Since the 1970s”, Explorations in New Cinema History: Approaches and Case Studies, ed. Richard Maltby, Daniel Biltereyst and Philippe Meers, Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011, pp. 171-84, ISBN 9781405199490 (hbk), 9781405199506 (pbk)
- “’Dear Mr. Kubrick’: Audience Responses to 2001: A Space Odyssey in the Late 1960s”, Participations: Journal of Audience and Reception Studies, vol. 6, no. 2 (November 2009), ISSN 1749-8716, chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://www.participations.org/06-02-06-kramer.pdf
- “‘He’s very good at work not involving little creatures, you know’: Schindler’s List, E.T. and the Shape of Steven Spielberg’s Career”, New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 7, no. 1 (March 2009), pp. 23-32, ISSN 1740-0309
- “Welterfolg und Apokalypse: Überlegungen zur Transnationalität des zeitgenössischen Hollywood” (Global Success and the Apocalypse: Notes on the Transnational Appeal of Contemporary Hollywood), Film transnational und transkulturell. Europäische und amerikanische Perspektiven, ed. Ricarda Strobel and Andreas Jahn-Sudmann, Paderborn: Wilhelm Fink Verlag, 2009, pp. 171-84, ISBN 9783770548033
- “Hollywood and the Germans: A Very Special Relationship”, The Contemporary Hollywood Film Industry, ed. Paul McDonald and Janet Wasko, Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, pp. 240-50, ISBN 9781405133876 (hbk), 9781405133883 (pbk)
- “The Spectre of History in the Age of Globalization: Notes on German Hit Movies and Hit Makers at Home and in the US”, Shifting Landscapes: Film and Media in European Context, ed. Miyase Christensen and Nezih Erdogan, Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2008, pp. 68-85, ISBN (10) 1847184731 or (13) 9781847184733 (hbk); (10) 1443805920 and (13) 9781443805926 (pbk)
- “O (nad)casovosti satiry. Recepce filmu Dikator v zapadnim Nemecku v obdobi 1952-1973” (The [Un]Timeliness of Satire: The Reception of The Great Dictator in West Germany, 1952-1973), Iluminace (Prague), vol. 20, no. 1 (Spring 2008), pp. 51-67, ISSN 0862-397X [an earlier English language version of this essay can be found at ]
- “Battered Child: Buster Keaton’s Stage Performance and Vaudeville Stardom in the Early 1900s”, New Review of Film and Television Studies, vol. 5, no. 3 (December 2007), pp. 253-67, ISSN 1740-0309
- “When ‘Hanoi Jane’ Conquered Hollywood: Jane Fonda’s Films and Activism, 1977-1981”, The New Film History: Sources, Methods, Approaches, ed. James Chapman, Mark Glancy and Sue Harper, Basingstoke: Palgrave, 2007, pp. 104-16, ISBN 9780230001695 or 0230001696 (hbk); (10) 0230594487 or (13) 9780230594487 (pbk)
- “Disney and Family Entertainment”, Contemporary American Cinema, ed. Michael Hammond and Linda Ruth Williams, Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006, pp. 265-72, 275-9, ISBN 0335218326 (hbk), 0335218318 (pbk)
- “Steven Spielberg”, Contemporary American Cinema, ed. Michael Hammond and Linda Ruth Williams, Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006, pp. 166-9, ISBN 0335218326 (hbk), 0335218318 (pbk)
- with Eithne Quinn, “Blaxploitation”, Contemporary American Cinema, ed. Michael Hammond and Linda Ruth Williams, Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2006, pp. 184-5, 188-98, ISBN 0335218326 (hbk), 0335218318 (pbk)
- “‘It’s aimed at kids - the kid in everybody’: George Lucas, Star Wars and Children’s Entertainment”, 21st Century Film Studies: A Scope Reader, ed. James Burton, 2006, http://www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/reader/index.php, no longer accessible online (reprint of essay first published in Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, December 2001)
- “Karrierefrauen in Hollywood: Die (Dar)Stellung von Frauen im amerikanischen Kino” (Career Women in Hollywood: The Position and Representation of Women in American Cinema), Sowi: Das Journal für Geschichte, Politik, Wirtschaft und Kultur, no. 3/05 (2005), pp. 75-83, ISSN 0932-3244
- “Big Pictures: Studying Contemporary Hollywood Cinema Through Its Greatest Hits”, Screen Methods: Comparative Readings in Film Studies, ed. Jacqueline Furby and Karen Randell, London: Wallflower, 2005, pp. 124-32, ISBN 1904764355 (hbk), 1904764347 (pbk)
- with Lee Grieveson, “Introduction”, “Prologue”, “Film Projection and Variety Shows”, “Storytelling and the Nickelodeon”, “Cinema and Reform”, “Feature Films and Cinema Programmes”, “Classical Hollywood Cinema”, “European Cinemas”, The Silent Cinema Reader, ed. Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 1-9, 11-4, 31-9, 77-85, 135-43, 187-95, 271-8, 329-38, ISBN 0415252830 (hbk), 0415252849 (pbk)
- “The Making of a Comic Star: Buster Keaton and The Saphead (1920)”, The Silent Cinema Reader, ed. Lee Grieveson and Peter Krämer, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 279-89, ISBN 0415252830 (hbk), 0415252849 (pbk) (partial and slightly revised reprint of previous publication)
- “Drei Deutsche in Hollywood. Patriotismus, historisches Trauma und ‘harmlose’ Unterhaltung” (Three Germans in Hollywood: Patriotism, Historical Trauma and ‘Harmless’ Entertainment), Die Spur durch den Spiegel. Der Film in der Kultur der Moderne, ed. Malte Hagener, Johann N. Schmidt and Michael Wedel, Berlin: Bertz, 2004, pp. 132-45, ISBN 3865051553
- “The Rise and Fall of Sandra Bullock: Notes on Starmaking and Female Stardom in Contemporary Hollywood”, Film Stars: Hollywood and Beyond, ed. Andy Willis, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2004, pp. 89-112, ISBN 07190564456446 (hbk), 0719056454 (pbk)
- “‘It’s aimed at kids - the kid in everybody’: George Lucas, Star Wars and Children’s Entertainment”, Action and Adventure Cinema, ed. Yvonne Tasker, London: Routledge, 2004, pp. 358-70, ISBN 0415235065 (hbk), 0415235073 (pbk) (slightly revised reprint of previous publication in Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies)
- “‘Far across the distance...’: Historical Films, Film History and Titanic (1997)”, The Titanic in Myth and Memory: Representations in Visual and Literary Culture, ed. Tim Bergfelder and Sarah Street, London: I.B. Tauris, 2004, pp. 163-72, ISBN 185043431X (hbk), 185043428 (pbk)
- “The Many Faces of Holly Golightly: Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany’s and Hollywood”, Film Studies, no. 5 (Winter 2004), pp. 58-65, ISSN 1469-0314
- “‘A woman in a male dominated world’: Jodie Foster, Stardom and 90s Hollywood”, Contemporary Hollywood Stardom, ed. Thomas Austin and Martin Barker, London: Arnold, 2003, pp. 205-18, ISBN 0340809361 (hbk), 034080937X (pbk)
- “Derailing the Honeymoon Express: Comicality and Narrative Closure in Buster Keaton’s The Blacksmith”, Hollywood Comedians: The Film Reader, ed. Frank Krutnik, London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 43-53, ISBN 0415235510 (hbk), 0415235529 (pbk) (partial reprint of previous publication)
- “‘Want to take a ride?’: Reflections on the Blockbuster Experience in Contact (1997)”, Movie Blockbusters, ed. Julian Stringer, London: Routledge, 2003, pp. 128-40, ISBN 0415256089 (hbk), 0415256097 (pbk)
- “Hollywood in Germany/Germany in Hollywood”, The German Cinema Book, ed. Tim Bergfelder, Erica Carter and Deniz Göktürk, London: BFI, 2002, pp. 227-37, ISBN 0815709451 (hbk), 091570946X (pbk)
- “‘The best Disney film Disney never made’: Children’s Films and the Family Audience in American Cinema Since the 1960s”, Genre and Contemporary Hollywood, ed. Steve Neale, London: BFI, 2002, pp. 183-198, ISBN 0815708862 (hbk), 0851708870 (pbk)
- “Steven Spielberg”, Fifty Contemporary Filmmakers, ed. Yvonne Tasker, London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 319-28, ISBN 041518973X (hbk), 0415189748 (pbk)
- “Women First: Titanic (1997), Action-Adventure Films and Hollywood’s Female Audience”, Film and Television History Resource Book 1, ed. Open University, Milton Keynes: The Open University, 2002, pp. 32-48 (edited version of essay first published in Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television)
- “‘It’s aimed at kids - the kid in everybody’: George Lucas, Star Wars and Children’s Entertainment”, Scope: An Online Journal of Film Studies, December 2001, ISSN 1465-9166, http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/scope/documents/2001/december-2001/kramer.pdf
- “‘Clean, dependable slapstick’: Comic Violence and the Emergence of Classical Hollywood Cinema”, Violence and American Cinema, ed. J. David Slocum, New York: Routledge, 2001, pp. 103-16, ISBN 0415928095 (hbk), 0415928109 (pbk)
- “‘Faith in Relations Between People’: Audrey Hepburn, Roman Holiday and European Integration”, 100 Years of European Cinema: Entertainment or Ideology?, ed. Diana Holmes and Alison Smith, Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2000, pp. 195-206, ISBN 0719058716 (hbk), 0719058724 (pbk)
- “‘A cutie with more than beauty’: Audrey Hepburn, the Hollywood Musical and Funny Face”, Musicals: Hollywood and Beyond, ed. Bill Marshall and Robynn Stilwell, Exeter: Intellect, 2000, pp. 62-9, ISBN 1841500038 (pbk)
- “Post-classical Hollywood”, The Film Studies Reader, ed. Joanne Hollows, Peter Hutchings and Mark Jancovich, London: Arnold, 2000, pp. 174-80, ISBN 0340692782 (hbk), 0340692790 (pbk) (partial reprint of previous publication)
- “Star Wars”, The Movies as History: Visions of the Twentieth Century, ed. David Ellwood, Stroud: Sutton Publishing, 2000, pp. 44-53, ISBN 0750923318 (pbk) (slightly revised reprint of previous publication)
- “Post-classical Hollywood”, American Cinema and Hollywood: Critical Approaches, ed. John Hill and Pamela Church Gibson, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pp. 63-83, ISBN 0198742819 (pbk) (one of three new volumes previously published together as The Oxford Guide to Film Studies, 1998)
- “Entering the Magic Kingdom: The Walt Disney Company, The Lion King and the Limitations of Criticism”, Film Studies, no. 2 (Spring 2000), pp. 44-50, ISSN 1469-0314
- “A Powerful Cinema-going Force? Hollywood and Female Audiences since the 1960s”, Identifying Hollywood’s Audiences: Cultural Identity and the Movies, ed. Melvyn Stokes and Richard Maltby, London: BFI, 1999, pp. 98-112, ISBN 0851707386 (hbk), 0851707394 (pbk)
- with Alan Lovell, “Introduction”, Screen Acting, ed. Alan Lovell and Peter Krämer, London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 1-9, ISBN 041518293X (hbk), 0415182948 (pbk)
- “Bibliographical Notes”, Screen Acting, ed. Alan Lovell and Peter Krämer, London: Routledge, 1999, pp. 165-70, ISBN 041518293X (hbk), 0415182948 (pbk)
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