Major publications include Fifties Television: The Industry and Its Critics (University of Illinois Press, 1990) and New Media and Popular Imagination: Launching Radio, Television, and Digital Media in the United States (Oxford University Press, 2004), as well as scores of articles and book chapters on media history, digital media, and film studies. Associate editor of Cinema Journal, Boddy also serves on the editorial advisory boards of Screen, Television and New Media, The Velvet Light Trap and the International Journal of Cultural Studies. His teaching interests include film theory, avant-garde film and video, new media, and the cultural history of electronic media.