Colin Burnett’s work focuses on the social history of film and media aesthetics, with an emphasis on how culture shapes the visual, sound, and storytelling choices of practitioners working in France, Québec, the UK, India, Taiwan, the Middle East, and other national and transnational contexts. He is currently at work on a second book, titled "Serial Bonds: The Multimedia Life of 007," which investigates the creative “play” the James Bond franchise has fostered among authorized and unauthorized writers and artists around the globe and how this play has resulted in one of the most complex experiments in serial storytelling in the history of the media franchise.