Professor of English
Office
Moreland 312
Phone
541-737-1647
Email
jlewis@oregonstate.edu
Education
Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles 1983
M.A.H. State University of New York at Buffalo 1979
B.A. Hobart College 1977
Areas of specialization
Film Studies, Cultural Studies, American Studies
Selected publications
Books
American Film: A History, WW Norton, 2007.
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and Method, Duke University Press, 2007.
The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties,
New York University Press (2002).
Hollywood v. Hard-Core: Censorship and Regulation, New York University
Press (Fall 2000).
The New American Cinema, Duke University Press (1998).
Whom God Wishes to Destroy... Francis Coppola and The New Hollywood,
Duke University Press (1995).
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture,.
Routledge
(1992).
Articles
"Parting Glances," Cinema Journal, 43:3 (2004).
"The Body's in the Trunk: (Re)-Presenting Generation X," in The Radiant Hour: Versions
of Youth in American Culture, edited by Neil Campbell, (University of Exeter Press,
2000; Edinburgh University Press, 2004).
"The Utah Version: Some Notes on the Relative Integrity of the Hollywood Product," Film
International, 4 (2003/4).
"The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Auteurism in the
New Hollywood," Film International, 1 (2003).
"Public Pedagogy," Afterimage, Winter (2003).
"Following the Money in America's Sunniest Company Town: Some Notes on the
Political Economy of the Hollywood Blockbuster" in Movie Blockbusters, edited by
Julian Stringer (Routledge, 2003).
"The Coen Brothers: Some Notes on Independence and Independents in the New
Hollywood," in Contemporary American Filmmakers, edited by Yvonne Tasker,
(Routledge, 2002).
"Punks in LA: It's Kiss or Kill," in Common Culture: Reading and Writing about
American Popular Culture, edited by Michael Petracca and Madeleine Sorapure
(Prentice Hall, 2000).
"We Do Not Ask You To Condone This...How the Blacklist Saved Hollywood,"
Cinema Journal (Winter 2000).
"If History Has Taught Us Anything...Francis Coppola, Paramount
Pictures and the Godfather, Parts I, II and III," in Francis Ford
Coppola's "The Godfather Trilogy," edited by Nick Browne.
(NY: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
"Trust and Anti-Trust in the New Hollywood," Michigan Quarterly
Review, vol. 35, no. 1 (1997).
"Disney After Disney: From Family Business to the Business of Family,"
in Disney Discourses, edited by Eric Smoodin. New York: Routledge
(1994).
Grants, awards and honors
Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship, Oregon State University, awarded for research on file sharing and the MPAA, 2006.
Post-tenure Review Award, Oregon State University, 2005.
Editor, Cinema Journal, 2004
New York Times New and Noteworthy in Paperback, for Hollywood v.
Hard Core, 2002.
Center for the Humanities Research Fellowship, Oregon State University, awarded for research on blacklist memoirs, 2001.
College of Liberal Arts Researcher of the Year, Oregon State University, 1995.
Outstanding Academic Book of the Year, awarded by Choice Magazine for
The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture, 1994.
