Publications

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (forthcoming, 2026).  Documentary Habitats: Transmedia Ecologies. Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 

Hudson, D. and A. Yunis, eds. (2024). Reorienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

invited panel discussions: Arab Gulf States Institute in Washington (04/2024), Centre for West Asia India Dialogue (02/2024 on Zoom)

Hudson, D. (2017). Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods. Traditions in American Cinema Series. Ed. L. Badley and R. B. Palmer. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.  

reviews:  Journal of Film and Video (2020), The Journal of Popular Culture (2018), The Year’s Work in Critical and Cultural Theory (2018); profiled in Abu Dhabi Weekly (2017), and The Page 99 Test (2017)

chapter “Blood, Bodies, and Borders” reprinted in Global Horror Hybridity and Alterity in Transnational Horror Film. 20–50. Ed. S. Alkassim and Z. El-Bayoumi Foty. San Diego: Cognella, 2023.

conclusion “History and Hollywood, Mashed-up” included in Black Liberation Reading List, an open library by JSTOR and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (February 2021)

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2015). Thinking through Digital Media: Transnational Environments and Locative Places. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.

review: Film Quarterly (2016)

chapter “Tactical Engagement through Gaming and Narrowcasting” deposited Public Health Emergency COVID-19 Initiative by United States Office for Science and Technology Policy and National Science and Technology Advisors (March 2020)

Yunis, A. and D. Hudson, eds. (2021), “Film and Visual Media in the Gulf: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives,” special double issue of Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 14(1–2): 10 articles plus editors’ introduction. 

invited panel discussion: NYUAD Humanities Research Fellowship for the Study of the Arab World (11/2021 on Zoom)

Hudson, D. (2024). “Remaining Palestinian: Annemarie Jacir’s Films and Protagonists as ‘Unruly Subjects’.” Afterimage 51(1): 70–95.

Hudson, D. (2022). “Untangling Fact, Fiction, Fantasy—and Outright Lies: Compilation Films as Archival Piracy.” Social Research 89(4) special issue on Photography and Film as Evidence, ed. P. Kottman, 1055–1083.

Hudson, D. (2022). “#OscarMustFall: On Refusing to Give Power to Unjust Definitions of ‘Merit’.” Jump Cut 61.

republished with new postscript by African Film Festival New York (19 September 2022)

Yunis, A. and D. Hudson. "Introduction: Film and Visual Media in the Gulf." Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication 14(1–2): 5–22.

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2021). “Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Big and High, Small and Low.” Jump Cut 60.

Hudson, D. (2021). “Mapping Palestine/Israel through Interactive Documentary,” Journal of Palestine Studies 50(1): 51–76.

abridged version with new introduction published as “Producing Palestine as Layers of Historical Evidence with Interactive Documentaries” in Producing Palestine: New Visions, New Technologies, New Knowledge, 181–197. Ed. H. Tawil-Souri and D. Matar. London: I.B. Tauris, 2024.

Hudson, D. (2020). “UAE Filmmaking beyond Arabization, Cosmopolitanism, and Exceptionalism.” Arabian Humanities 14 special issue “La culture pop dans la péninsule Arabique,” Ed. F. Lagrange and C. Chaveneau: 1–27. 

Hudson, D. (2020). “Toward a Cinema of Contact Zones: Intersecting Globalizations, Dubai, and City of Life.” Afterimage 47(4): 26–49. 

Hudson, D. (2020). “Interactive Documentary at the Intersection of Performance and Mediation: Navigating ‘Invisible’ Histories and ‘Inaudible’ Stories in the United States.” Studies in Documentary Film 14(2): 128–146. 

Hudson, D. (2019). “Songs from India and Zanzibar: Documenting the Gulf in Migration.” Studies in South Asian Film and Media 10(2): 91–112.

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2019). “States of Environmentalist Media.” States of Media and Environment. Media and Environment 1(1) inaugural issue.

Gershenson, O. and D. Hudson (2019). “Nightmares of a Nation: Israeli Horror-Satires: Rabies and Big Bad Wolves.” Journal of Cinema and Media Studies 59(1): 44–65. 

Hudson, D. and P.  R. Zimmermann (2019). “Insurgent Habitats: On Media and Environment," Film Quarterly 72(3), special issue on Cinema of Urgency: 38–41.

Hudson, D. (2013). “‘Of Course There Are Werewolves and Vampires’: True Blood and the Right to Rights for Other Species.” American Quarterly 65(3), special issue on Species/Race/Sex, Ed. C. Feccero and C. J. Kim: 661–683. 

Hudson, D. (2011). “Transpolitical Spaces within Transnational French Cinemas: Vampires and the Illusions of National Borders and Universal Citizenship.” French Cultural Studies 22(2): 111–126. 

Hudson, D. (2009). “Undesirable Bodies and Desirable Labor: Documenting the Globalization and Digitization of Transnational American Dreams in Indian Call Centers.” Cinema Journal 49(1): 82–102. 

Hudson D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2009). “Cinephilia, Technophilia, and Collaborative Remix Zones.” Screen 50(1), “Screen Theorizing Today: A Celebration of Screen’s Fiftieth Anniversary,” ed. A. Kuhn: 135–146. 

Hudson D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2009). “Taking Things Apart: Migratory Archives, Locative Media, and Micropublics.” Afterimage 36(4): 14–19. 

O. Gershenson and D. Hudson (2008). “New Immigrant, Old Story: Framing Russians on the Israeli Screen.” Journal of Film and Video 60(3–4): 25–41.

Hudson, D. (2008). “Undisclosed Recipients: Database Documentaries and the Internet,” an essay in dialogue with S.L. Tay, “Undisclosed Recipients: Documentary in an Era of Digital Convergence.” Studies in Documentary Film 2(1), ed. C. Hight: 79–98. 

O. Gershenson and D. Hudson (2007). “Absorbed by Love: Russian Immigrant Women in Israeli Film.” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 6(3): 301–315. 

Hudson, D. (2006). “‘Just Play Yourself, “Maggie Cheung”’: Irma Vep, Unthinking National Cinemas, and Rethinking Transnational Stardom.” Screen 47(2): 213–232.

Hudson, D. (2004). “Between Consumerism, Resistance, and Outreach: Online Vampire Subcultures.” Refractory: A Journal of Entertainment Media 6, “Fandom and Space.”

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2025). “Documentary’s Augmented Realities.” In Expanded Documentary: Ecologies of Images/Images of Ecology, 181–203. Ed. J. Kermanchi and A. Wiehl. Hamburg: AVINUS Verlag.

Hudson, D., C. C. Pederson, and P. R. Zimmermann (2025). “Polyphonic Communities: New Structures for Documentary Ethics.” In The Ethics of Documentary Film: New Approaches, 109–130. Ed. A Piotrowska. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.

Hudson, D., C. C. Pederson, and P. R. Zimmermann (2025). “Augmented Reality in Documentary.” In The Intellect Handbook of Documentary, 459–478. Ed. K. Nash and D. Williams. New York: Routledge, 2025. 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2025). “Environments of Race and Place: The Urgencies and Enmeshments of Participatory Community Media” In The Oxford Handbook of American Documentary, 423–445. Ed. J Glick and P. Aufderheide. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hudson, D. (2024). “Remix as Adaptation and Regeneration: Eco-art with African Perspectives before and after Oil.” In The Routledge Companion to Remix Studies, 204–217. Ed. E. Navas, O. Gallagher, and x. burrough. New York: Routledge.

Hudson, D. (2024). “Filmmaking and Film Culture on the Arabian Peninsula.” In Handbook of Arab Cinema, 40–59. Ed. N. Mellor. New York: Routledge. 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2024). “On the Outside Looking In: Perspective on the New Media Documentary in Canada.” Afterword to The Interactive Documentary in Canada, 326–340. Ed. M. B. Baker and J. Mulvogue. Montréal: McGill-Queen’s University Press.

A. Al Attar with D. Hudson (2024). “Interview with Ammar Al Attar on the Cinemas in the UAE Exhibition.” In Reorienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet, 102–120. Ed. D. Hudson and A. Yunis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Hudson, D. and A. Yunis (2024). “Introduction: Interconnecting Histories and Migrating Cultures.” In Reorienting the Middle East: Film and Digital Media Where the Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, and Indian Ocean Meet , 1–54. Ed. D. Hudson and A. Yunis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press.

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2022). “Ten Propositions.” In Labour in a Single Shot: Critical Perspectives on Antje Ehmann and Harun Farocki’s Global Video Project, 207–234. Ed. R. Grundemann, P. Schwartz, and G. H. Williams. Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press. 

Hudson, D. (2021). “Dale Hudson, “Interactive Documentary: Reactivating the Past to Claim a Future in the Postcolonial/ Transnational United States.” Chinese trans. in 全球纪录影像理论前沿, 鲍枫 主编 | Frontiers in Global Documentary Theory and Practice, 223–240. Ed. Bao Feng. Beijing: China International Broadcasting Press.

Hudson, D. (2021). “Patty Sent Me.” In Flash Flaherty: Tales from the Film Seminar. Ed. S. MacDonald and P. R. Zimmermann. Bloomington: Indiana University Press: 275–278; originally published as (2017). “My First Flaherty.” In Flaherty Stories: Voices from the Robert Flaherty Film Seminar. 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2020). “An Archive of Small Media during First-Wave COVID-19: Productive Memories of the Global Trauma.” In Memory and Aesthetic Experience, 143–170. Ed. F. Martins. Porto: Faculty of Arts, University of Porto.

Hudson, D. (2020). “Post-utopian Interventions by Students: Interactive Documentary and Micro-revolutions.” In: Utopia and Reality: Documentary, Activism and Imagined Worlds, 207–232. Ed. S. Spiegel, A. Reiter, and M. Goldberg. Cardiff: Wales University Press. 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2019). “Writing about Digital and Interactive Media.” In: Writing About Screen Media, 131–136. Ed. L. Patti. New York: Routledge.

Hudson, D. (2017). “Locating Emirati Filmmaking within Globalizing Media Ecologies.” In: Media in the Middle East: Activism, Politics, and Culture, 165–202. Ed. N. Lenze, C. Schriwer, and Z. A. Jalil. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 

Hudson, D., C. C. Pederson, and P. R. Zimmermann (2016). “Iterações Ambientais : Habitats Digitais e a Construção de Mundos de Telas Múltiplas.” Portuguese translation by L. O. Nicolo. In: Cinemas em redes: Tecnologia, estética e política na era digital, 31–50. Ed. G. A. Sobrinho. São Paulo: Papirus Editora/SOCINE: Sociedade Brasileira de estudos de cinema e audiovisual. 

Hudson, D. (2014). “Vampires and Transnational Horror.” In: A Companion to the Horror Film, 31–50. Ed. H. M. Benshoff. West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell. 

Hudson, D. (2013). “Horrors of Anthropocentrism: ‘Improved Animals’ on the Islands of Dr. Moreau.” In: Transnational Horror across Visual Media: Fragmented Bodies, 209–227. Ed. D. Och and K. Strayer. New York: Routledge. 

Hudson, D. (2009). “Modernity as Crisis: Goeng si and Vampires in Hong Kong Cinema.” In: Draculas, Vampires, and Other Undead Forms: Essays on Gender, Race, and Culture., 203–233. Ed. J.E. Browning and C.J. (Kay) Picart. Lanham. Scarecrow Press.

Russian translation: (2021). “Модерность как кризис: кён-си и вампиры в гонконгском кино” (Modernost’ kak krizis: kon-si i vampiry v gonkongskom kino) Corpus Mundi 2(4): 112-142. 

Gershenson, O. and D. Hudson (2008). “Влюбленные по собственному желанию: иммиграция, гендер, кино” (Vlyublennyye po sobstvennomu zhelaniyu: immigratsiya, gender, kino) [“In Love Voluntarily: Immigration, Gender, Cinema”]. Russian translation by P. Barskova. In: Израиль через “русских”: кулътypа и идентичностъ (Izrail’ cherez “russkikh”: kul’tura i identichnost) [Israel through “Russians”: Culture and Identity], 377–398.. Ed. E. E. Nosenko. Moscow: Institute of Oriental Studies and Russian Academy of Sciences.

Hudson, D. (2007). “Vampires of Color and the Performance of Multicultural Whiteness.” In: The Persistence of Whiteness: Race and Contemporary Hollywood Cinema, 127–156. Ed. D. Bernardi. New York: Routledge.

Hudson, D. (2024). “Reframing Humans as Part of Nature with Mobile Screens and Video Installations.” In Saudi Film Criticism Conference, 180–187. Riyadh: Saudi Film Commission, 2024.

Arabic translation: "إعادة تصوير البشر باعتبارهم جزء ًا من الطبيعة من خلال شاشات الهواتف المحمولة وتركيبات الفيديو".,  In مؤتمر النقد السينمائي,.. , 141–146. Riyadh: Saudi Film Commission, 2024. 

Hudson, D. and C. C. Pederson (2024). “States of Emergency, Then and Now: Artists’ Reflections on Sustained Turbulence and FLEFF.” The Edge (08 July).

Hudson, D. (2023). “U.S. Education Needs Land Acknowledgements; Forget McCarthy’s ‘Woke Indoctrination’.” The Edge (10 January).

Hudson, D. (2022). “The World Is Burning, and Whatever Tops the BFI’s ‘Best Films of All Time’ Isn’t Going to Help Us.” The Edge (06 December).

Hudson, D. (2022). “How Aquariums and Conventional Nature Films Greenwash Animal Pain.” The Edge (22 July). 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2022). “Bablyon’13: Small Media of Urgent Utility.” Docologue (01 May). 

Hudson, D. (2022). “Black Pain and Punishment at the Oscar.” CounterPunch (15 April). 

Hudson, D. (2022). “Value-added Cinema,” in 25 for 25: Celebrating FLEFF’s Transformative Vision, Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival. 

Hudson, D. (2021). “Listening to What Is Shared: From Gulf to Gulf to Gulf as Documentary Co-creation.” Visible Evidence Forum. 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2020). “The Urgency of Participatory Small Media during the COVID-19 Pandemic.” Park Center for Independent Media, Ithaca College. 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2020). “First Wave COVID-19 Playlist: Satire.” Media Playlists, Centre for Screen Cultures, University of St. Andrews. 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2020). “First Wave COVID-19 Playlist: Music.” Media Playlists, Centre for Screen Cultures, University of St. Andrews. 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2020). “First Wave COVID-19 Playlist: Information.” Media Playlists, Centre for Screen Cultures, University of St. Andrews. 

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2020). “Digital and Interactive Media Projects that Think Through the Environment.” Media Playlists, Centre for Screen Cultures, University of St. Andrews. 

Hudson, D. (2018). “What is Open Space New Media Documentary?: A Conversation with Authors Helen De Michiel and Patricia R. Zimmermann.” Immerse 19, lead story. 

Hudson, D. and C. C. Pederson (2017). “New Media, Collaboration, and the Anthropocene.” 20 on 20: Essays in Celebration of FLEFF. Ed. S. Tropiano and P. R. Zimmermann. Twentieth Anniversary Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2015). “Precious Images,” expanded essay on Chuck Workman’s Precious Images (USA 1986). National Film Preservation Board of the National Film Registry, Library of Congress.

Hudson, D. (2013). Supplementary web materials for “Beyond the Page” related to article for American Quarterly special issue on Species/Race/Sex. Eds. C. Feccero and C.J. Kim. 

Hudson, D. (2012). “Surveillance and Disinformation, Hacked: Nadia El Fani’s Bedwin Hacker.” Flow 15(12). 

Hudson, D. (2012). “Biometrics and Machinima, Reanimated: Jacqueline Goss’s Stranger Comes to Town.” Flow 15(07). 

Hudson, D. (2011). “Race and Labor, Unplugged: Alex Rivera’s Sleep Dealer.” Flow 15(04). 

Hudson, D. and S. L. Tay (2009–2010). “Digital Spaces: Speculations on Digital Art and Viral Spaces.” Blog posts on new media art and environmentalism. Finger Lakes Environmental Film Festival.

Watson, R. (2019). “Interview with Dale Hudson and Patricia R. Zimmermann,” Studies in Documentary Film 13(3): 250–267. 

Faculti (2019). “Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods,” video interview on Vampires, Race, and Transnational Hollywoods, Faculti. 

Hudson, D. and A. Yunis (2020). “Bahrain,” “Emirates Film Competition,” “Film Festivals,” “Jordan,” “Qatar,” “Saudi Arabia,” “United Arab Emirates”, “Yemen,” “Nawaf Al Janahi,” “Nujoom Alghanem,” “Haifaa Al-Mansour,” “Bassam Al-Thawdi,” “Ali F. Mostafa,” and “Khalifa Shaheen.” In Historical Dictionary of Middle Eastern Cinema, second edition, 75–76, 170–171, 191–196, 274–277, 397–398, 430–433, 490–493, 517–519, 34, 44­–45, 49, 50, 348, 438–439. Ed. T. Ginsberg and C. Lippard. Lanham: Rowman & Littlefield.

Hudson, D. (2022). "Review of Annie Dell’Aria, The Moving Image as Public Art: Sidewalk Spectators and Modes of Enchantment (Palgrave Macmillan, 2021)." Afterimage 49(2): 114–116

Hudson, D. and P. R. Zimmermann (2021). "Review of Swampscapes (USA, 2018; Elizabeth Miller, Kim Grinfelder, and Juan Carlos Zaldivar)." Afterimage 48(4): 43–60.

Hudson, D. (2017). "Review of i-docs: The Evolving Practice of Interactive Media, ed. J. Aston, S. Gaudenzi, and M. Rose (Wallflower, 2018)." Post-Script 36(2–3): 126–129.

Hudson, D. (2015). “Leila Sansour’s Open Bethlehem: Making Palestine Legible and Bethlehem Accessible.” Review of Open Bethlehem(Palestine, 2014; dir. Leila Sansour). Jadaliyya. 

Hudson, D. (2015). "Report on Transnational Cinema/Media Studies Conference, NYUAD Institute, United Arab Emirates." Transnational Cinemas 6(1): 84–96. 

Hudson, D. (2013). "Review of Lamma Shoftak/When I Saw You (Jordan/Palestine/UAE/Greece, 2012; dir. Annemarie Jacir)." Jadaliyya.

Republished in Ahram Online.

Hudson, D. (2010). “Review of African Film and Literature: Adapting Violence to the Screen by L. Dovey (Columbia UP, 2009).” African Studies Review 53(1): 235–237.

Hudson, D. (2010). "Report on 5^o Congreso Internacional de Teoría y Análisis Cinematográfico, Morelia, Michoacán, México." Scope: An Online Journal of Film & TV Studies 16.

Hudson, D. (2009). “Digital Performances.” Review of Lossless: Rebecca Baron and Doug Goodwin at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University. Afterimage 36(5): 22–23. 

Hudson, D. (2008). “Migrations and Mediations.” Report on The Age of Migration, 54th annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Colgate University. Afterimage 36(2): 2. 

Hudson, D. (2007). “Deterritorializing Cinema Studies.” Report on South of the Other, the 53rd annual Robert Flaherty Film Seminar, Vassar College. Afterimage web version. 

Hudson, D. (2006).  “Grounding Internet Theory.” Review of Who Controls the Internet?: Illusions of a Borderless World by J. Goldsmith and T. Wu (Oxford UP, 2006). Afterimage 34(3): 48–49.

Hudson, D. (2005). “Privileged Play Spaces.” Review of Interactive Realism: The Poetics of Cyberspace by D. Downes (McGill-Queen’s UP, 2005). Afterimage 33(3): 53–54.

Hudson, D. (2005). “Future Perfection.” Report on Future Perfect: Contemporary Chinese Art and the Question of the Archive, an international workshop on art and curating at Cornell University. Afterimage 33(3): 7–8.