Lisa Dombrowski’s research concerns the art and business of filmmaking, with an emphasis on American independent cinema, East Asian cinema, and contemporary specialty cinema. She is the author of The Films of Samuel Fuller: If You Die, I’ll Kill You! (2008), the editor of Kazan Revisited (2011), and the co-editor with Justin Wyatt of ReFocus: The Later Works and Legacy of Robert Altman (2022). She has contributed book chapters to Screening American Independent Film (2023), Resetting the Scene: Classical Hollywood Revisited (2021); United Artists: Hollywood Centenary (2020);  Independent Female Filmmakers: A Chronicle Through Interviews, Profiles, and Manifestos (2018); Silent Features: The Development of Silent Feature Films, 1914-1934 (2018); Behind the Silver Screen: Cinematography (2014); and Widescreen Worldwide (2010). Her articles have also appeared in Film History, Film Quarterly, Film Comment, The Velvet Light Trap, The New York Times, and the Criterion Collection, among others. She is currently learning Cantonese while researching and developing a digital humanities project on Chinatown Movie Theaters in North America.