Author of "British Film Institute Distribution Library Catalogue" (1978), "Capital & Culture: The German Cinema 1933-1945" (1979), "Media Hits the Pits" (1985), "Researchers' Guide to John Grierson" (1990), "Ken Loach: La Mirada Radical" (1992), "Ill Effects: the Media-Violence Debate" (with
Martin Barker) (1997), "Media: the Impact on Our Lives" (2000), "British Horror Cinema" (co-edited with
Steve Chibnall) (2002), "Newspapers and Magazines" (2002), "Advertising" (2002), "A Young Citizen's Guide to the Media in Politics" (2002), "Culture Wars: the Media and the British Left" (with James Curran and
Ivor Gaber) (2005), "Freedom of the Word" (2007), "Freedom of the Moving Image" (with
Philip French) (2008).