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| YouTube: Where cultural memory and copyright converge L Hilderbrand Film Quarterly 61 (1), 48-57, 2007 | 200 | 2007 |
| Retroactivism L Hilderbrand GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies 12 (2), 303-317, 2006 | 86 | 2006 |
| The Art of Distribution L Hilderbrand Film quarterly 64 (2), 24-28, 2010 | 64 | 2010 |
| Paris is Burning: a queer film classic L Hilderbrand Arsenal Pulp Press, 2013 | 55 | 2013 |
| A suitcase full of vaseline, or travels in the 1970s gay world L Hilderbrand Journal of the History of Sexuality 22 (3), 373-402, 2013 | 37 | 2013 |
| 7. Grainy Days and Mondays: Superstar and Bootleg Aesthetics L Hilderbrand Media Studies| Volume 76, 135, 2004 | 36 | 2004 |
| Streaming Media’s Environmental Impact LU Marks, J Clark, J Livingston, D Oleksijczuk, L Hilderbrand Media+ Environment 2 (1), 2020 | 32 | 2020 |
| Experiments in documentary: Contradiction, uncertainty, change L Hilderbrand Millennium Film Journal, 2, 2009 | 28 | 2009 |
| Cinematic promiscuity: cinephilia after videophilia L Hilderbrand Framework: The Journal of Cinema and Media 50 (1-2), 214-217, 2009 | 24 | 2009 |
| “Luring Disco Dollies to a Life of Vice”: Queer Pop Music's Moment L Hilderbrand Journal of Popular Music Studies 25 (4), 415-438, 2013 | 20 | 2013 |
| Feedback: the video data bank catalog of video art and artist interviews K Horsfield, L Hilderbrand (No Title), 2006 | 20 | 2006 |
| The Bars Are Ours: Histories and Cultures of Gay Bars in America, 1960 and After L Hilderbrand Duke University Press, 2023 | 10 | 2023 |
| The big picture: on the expansiveness of cinema and media studies L Hilderbrand Cinema Journal 57 (2), 113-116, 2018 | 9 | 2018 |
| Mediating Queer Boyhood: Dottie Gets Spanked L Hilderbrand İçinde: The Cinema of Todd Haynes: All That Heaven Allows, 42-56, 2007 | 9 | 2007 |
| Moving images: On video art markets and distribution L Hilderbrand Resolutions 3: Global networks of video, 1-17, 2012 | 8 | 2012 |
| Sex Out of Sync: Christmas on Earth's and Couch's Queer Sound Tracks L Hilderbrand Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture, and Media Studies 28 (2), 45-75, 2013 | 7 | 2013 |
| On nature programming, the Anthropocene, and the humanitarian impulse in documentary L Hilderbrand Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 7 (2), 210-215, 2020 | 6 | 2020 |
| The uncut version: The Mattachine Society’s pornographic epilogue L Hilderbrand Sexualities 19 (4), 449-464, 2016 | 6 | 2016 |
| In the heat of the moment: Notes on the past, present, and future of Born in Flames L Hilderbrand Women & Performance: a journal of feminist theory 23 (1), 6-16, 2013 | 4 | 2013 |
