(book) "Movie-Made America: A Cultural History of American Movies". Revised edition. New York: Vintage Books, 1994. ISBN 0679755497
(book) "Prime-Time America: Life On and Behind the Television Screen". New York: Oxford University Press, 1988. ISBN 0195027655
(book) "A World History of Film". Second edition. New York: Harry N Abrams, 2002. ISBN 0810906066
(book) "City Boys: Cagney, Bogart, Garfield". Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1992. ISBN 0691047952
(book editor, with Vito Zagarrio) "Frank Capra: Authorship and the Studio System". Philadelphia, PA: Temple University Press, 1998. ISBN 1566396077
(book editor, with Glen Waggoner) "Rotisserie League Baseball 1987 : The Official Rulebook and How-to-Play Guide".
(book) "The Plastic Age 1917-1930". New York: George Braziller, 1970. ISBN-10: 0807605719; ISBN-13: 9780807605714
(book) "Rotisserie League Football". New York: Bantam Books, 1991. ISBN-10: 0553353969; ISBN-13: 9780553353969
(book) "Film: An International History of the Medium". Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN-10: 0131835785; ISBN-13: 9780131835788
(book editor, with Saverio Giovacchini) "Global Neorealism: The Transnational History of a Film Style". Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2011. ISBN-10: 1617031224; ISBN-13: 9781617031229