He specializes in the history of Russian/Soviet cinema and television, specifically in the periods of destalinization in the 1950s-1960s and contemporary cinema and television. He is especially interested in cultural history and memory of Soviet cinema and television. His book, Inherited Discourse: The Paradigms of Stalinist Culture in Literature and Cinema of the Thaw (Аcademic Project, 2007) examined cultural politics of a failed destalinization in the 1950s and 60s. An edited volume, Cinemasaurus: Russian Film in Contemporary Context (co-edited with Nancy Condee and Elena Prokhorova, Academic Studies Press, 2020) examined contemporary Russian cinema as a new visual economy, emerging over three decades after the Soviet collapse in 1991. He is currently working on a broad study of genres of Russian and East European television.