Jon Lewis
Professor of English
Oregon State University
Moreland 312
2550 SW Jefferson Way
Corvallis,
OR
97331 USA
Tel:
541-737-1647
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Credentials
- Ph.D. - University of California, Los Angeles 1983
- M.A.H. - State University of New York at Buffalo 1979
- B.A. - Hobart College 1977
Research
Jon Lewis is a professor in the School of Writing, Literature, and Film at Oregon State University where he has taught film and cultural studies since 1983. He has published eight books: The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture, which won a Choice Magazine Academic Book of the Year Award; Whom God Wishes to Destroy … Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood; The New American Cinema; Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, a New York Times New and Noteworthy paperback; The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties, American Film: A History, Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History and for the British Film Institute’s Film Classics series, The Godfather.
Professor Lewis has appeared in two theatrically released documentaries on film censorship: Inside Deep Throat (Fenton Bailey, 2005) and This Film is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick, 2006). Between 2002 and 2007, Professor Lewis was editor of Cinema Journal and had a seat on the Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.
Course Information
This class tracks American Film History from 1941 to 1968, roughly from the U.S. entrance into WW II to the industry-wide adoption of the MPAA movie rating system. Of particular interest and import will be the evolution of American studio film production (with a focus on various important film genres and auteurs).
This class focuses on post-ratings system Hollywood (1968-present). Of interest are the important films and filmmakers as well as important developments and changes in the movie industry.
Films screened for this class include:
- The Godfather (Coppola, 1972)
- Mean Streets (Scorsese, 1973)
- Taxi Driver (Scorsese, 1976)
- The Exorcist (Friedkin, 1973)
- Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)
- Apocalypse Now (Coppola, 1979)
- JFK (Stone, 1991)
- Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1993)
- Fargo (Coen, 1996)
- The Big Lebowski (Coen, 1998)
- The Thin Red Line (Malick, 1998)
- Fight Club (Fincher, 1999)
- Elephant (van Sant, 2003)
- The Hurt Locker (Bigelow, 2009)
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