PUBLICATIONS
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The Rainbow’s Gravity: Colour, Materiality and British Modernity
Published by The Paul Mellon Centre/Yale University Press, 2023.
Winner: BAFTSS Best First Monograph Award, MSA First Book Prize. Shortlisted: MLA Prize for a First Book, The Kraszna-Krausz Book Award. Commended by The Historians of British Art Book Prize Committee as ‘Exemplary Scholarship on the Period between 1800–1960’. Reviews in: Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, Oxford Art Journal, Journal of Visual Culture, The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television , Apollo Magazine, and The Art Newspaper
From Victorian breakthroughs in synthesising pigments to the BBC’s conversion to chromatic broadcasting, this book reveals how new colour media (across painting, printing, photography, film, and television) revolutionized the way Britain saw itself and its Empire across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
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Film Stock: An International History of a Sensitive Medium
Forthcoming 2027, University of Minnesota Press, co-edited with Alice Lovejoy and Pansy Duncan.
This edited collection explores the global history of photochemical film. My chapter, titled “Celluloid Skin: Cotton, Silver, Gelatin, Porcelain and the Racial Materialities of Film” explores the raw ingredients used to make film to reveal that its supposed conflation with White skin was troubled and destabilized through its proximity to animal bodies, Black labor, black materials, and Asian commodities.
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White Hot and Agfacool: Race, Heat and Colour in The Zone of Interest
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Hepworth in Colour Media. Gender and Sculpture across Photography, Film and Television
in Alexandra Gerstein and Stephen Feeke eds, Hepworth in Colour (Yale University Press & Paul Holberton Publishing, 2026)
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A History of Colour Cinema That Can Account for Indian Cinema: The Bombay Film Laboratory, Kashmir’s Climate and Gevacolor’s Pamposh
Co-authored with Poorvi Gaur, BioScope: South Asian Screen Studies, May 2025
Shortlisted for BAFTSS Best-Article Prize
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Hollywood Colour: Race, Technology, Aesthetics
Co-authored with Xin Peng, in Pamela Wojcik and Paula J. Masood (eds), The Routledge Companion to American Film History, (New York: Routledge, 2025)
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Chinese Imbibition Prints
Co-authored with Zhaoyu Zhu, FIAF Film Atlas, 2025
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Mapping the Laboratory: Technicolor Across Asia and Europe
Chapter in Global Film Color: The Monopack Revolution at Midcentury edited by Sarah Street and Joshua Yumibe (Rutgers University Press, 2024).
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Did Madame Mao Dream in Technicolor? Rethinking Cold War Colour Cinema through Technicolor’s “Chinese Copy”
Co-authored with Zhaoyu Zhu, Screen 61, no. 3 (1 September 2020): 343–67
Winner of the SCMS Katherine Singer Kovács Essay Award, Screen Biennal Award, and Honourable Mention for BAFTSS Best Article Prize.
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The Texture of Capitalism: Industrial Oil Colours and the Politics of Paint in the Work of G.F. Watts
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"The Hollywood Powderpuff War": Technicolor Cosmetics in the 1930s
Film History 28, no. 1 (2016): 107–31
Highly commended for Screen’s Annette Kuhn Essay Award, Runner Up for BAFTSS Best Doctoral Student Journal Article Prize.
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Revisiting Jhansi Ki Rani: India's First Technicolor Film
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The Perversion of the System: Peeping Tom (1960) and Eastmancolor
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The Politics of Colour Media
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Playlist: Rainbow of Film Colour
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The Magician & The Ragman (1954)
in The Work of Jean Dubuffet, Museum Research Consortium Dossier, MoMA, New York, 2014