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Jon Lewis speaks at Philadelphia Cinema & Media Seminar event, Nov. 30th
 Jon Lewis
'If You Can't Protect What You Own, You Don't Own Anything':
Piracy, Privacy and Public Relations in 21st Century Hollywood
Thursday, November 30, 5:00 pm
231 Fisher Bennett Hall
34th and Walnut Street
University of Pennsylvania campus
Talk to be preceded by
A workshop on Publishing in Film Studies
3:00 - 4:30 pm
same location: 231 Fisher Bennett Hall
Jon Lewis is a professor in the English Department at Oregon State
University where he has taught film and cultural studies since 1983. In
2002, Professor Lewis was named editor Cinema Journal and appointed to the
Executive Council of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies. Professor
Lewis has published five 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; and The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the
Nineties. Forthcoming in 2007 are two books: American Film: A History and
Looking Past the Screen: Case Studies in American Film History, a collection
co-edited with Eric Smoodin. In the past two years, Professor Lewis has
appeared in two theatrically released documentaries on film censorship:
Inside Deep Throat (Fenton Baily, 2005) and This Film is Not Yet Rated
(Kirby Dick, 2006).
Co-sponsored by the Philadelphia Cinema & Media Seminar and Penn Cinema
Studies. Please contact Oliver Gaycken with:ogaycken@temple.edu.
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