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Jon Lewis
Title:
University Distinguished Professor of Film Studies
College/Department:
School of Writing, Literature, and Film
Bio:
Jon Lewis has published sixteen books, including The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture, Whom God Wishes to Destroy...: Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood, Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry, Hard-Boiled Hollywood: Crime and Punishment in Postwar Los Angeles, Road Trip to Nowhere: Hollywood Encounters the Counterculture, and for the British Film Institute's Film Classics series The Godfather and The Godfather, Part II. Professor Lewis has appeared in several documentaries, including This Film is Not Yet Rated. Between 2002 and 2007, Lewis edited Cinema Journal.