Jon Lewis

Biographic Data

ID3889262
NAMEJon Lewis
GIVEN NAMESJon
FAMILY NAMELewis
SIGNATURELEWIS J
AFFILIATIONSOregon State University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS36
TOTAL CITATIONS32
AUTHOR COUNT35
EDITOR COUNT1
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1985
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • American Manhunt: O. J. Simpson

    Open AccessJon LewisARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • A Complete Unknown

    Open AccessJon LewisARTICLEJournal of American History2025

  • Arnold

    Open AccessJon Lewis, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2024

    Journal Article Arnold Get access Arnold. Dir. by Lesley Chilcott. Prod. by Lesley Chilcott, Allen Hughes, Peter Nelson, and Doug Pray. Invented by Girls and Defiant Ones Media Group. Originally aired on Netflix on June 7, 2023, 180 mins. Jon Lewis Jon Lewis Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 111, Issue 1, June 2024, Pages 197–200,…

  • The Synanon Fix: Did the Cure Become a Cult

    Open AccessJon LewisARTICLEJournal of American History2024

  • Phil Spector

    Open AccessJon Lewis, Thomas DohertyARTICLEJournal of American History2023

    Journal Article Phil Spector Get access Phil Spector. Dir. by Don Argott and Sheena M Joyce. Prod. by Lightbox. Showtime Documentary Films. Distributed by NOW, Sky Documentaries, 2022. 208 mins. (https://www.sho.com/spector) Jon Lewis Jon Lewis Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 110, Issue 1, June 2023, Pages 182–185, https://doi.o…

  • The End Of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties

    Jon LewisBOOKEnd of Cinema As We Know It2022

    Almost half a century ago, Jean-Luc Godard famously remarked, "I await the end of cinema with optimism." Lots of us have been waiting forand wondering aboutthis prophecy ever since. The way films are made and exhibited has changed significantly. Films, some of which are not exactly "films" anymore, can now be projected in a wide variety of wayson screens in revamped high tech theaters, on big, high-resolution TVs, on little screens in minivans an…

  • Pam & Tommy

    Open AccessJon LewisARTICLEJournal of American History2022

    Midway through the second episode of Hulu's eight-part miniseries about the actress Pamela Anderson, the rock musician Tommy Lee, and the videotape they made on their honeymoon, the celebrity couple watch The King and I (1956) on television. For the Mötley Crüe drummer, the musical is nothing short of baffling: “How many fucking kids he got?” The remark barely registers with Pam, who is digging the movie. To get her attention, Tommy announces, no…

  • Helter Skelter: An American Myth

    Open AccessJon LewisARTICLEJournal of American History2021

    August 9, 1969. A story begins to circulate about murders at a house in the 90210, a Beverly Hills address in the tony Benedict Canyon neighborhood: an heiress and her jet-setter boyfriend, a celebrity hairdresser, an up-and-coming actress, and a teenager in the wrong place at the wrong time. On the tenth, in the Los Feliz neighborhood due east of Cielo Drive: another home invasion and two more killings. The news spreads quickly but not always he…

  • Polluting our prisons? An examination of Oklahoma prison locations and toxic releases, 2011–2017

    Open AccessMaggie León-Corwin, Jericho R McElroy et al.ARTICLEPunishment & Society2020Cited by: 9References: 14

    Recent research has highlighted numerous environmental concerns with US prisons, including that prisons are often located on undesirable land that is in close proximity to environmental hazards. We utilize an environmental justice and green criminology perspective to test this in Oklahoma using data on prison sites and toxic releases provided by the US Environmental Protection Agency for a period of seven years (2011–2017). We focus on Oklahoma b…

  • Woodstock: Three Days that Defined a Generation

    Open AccessJon LewisARTICLEJournal of American History2019

    Barak Goodman and Jamila Ephron's Woodstock commemorates the fifty-year anniversary of the legendary festival. Produced for the PbsAmerican Experience series and in limited theatrical release in the summer of 2019, the film offers a trip down memory lane, with the network's baby boomer audience very much in mind. For the record, and as you consider my take on the film, this is relevant: I was fourteen when Woodstock happened, too young to make th…

  • Smutty Little Movies: The Creation and Regulation of Adult Video

    Jon LewisARTICLEJournal of American History2017

    Truth be told, porn chic—the brief run of hard-core titles in mainstream commercial theaters—was never particularly chic. But it was remarkable. Deep Throat (1972) and The Devil in Miss Jones (1973) were box-office hits in the early 1970s, briefly legitimizing a historically disreputable and clandestine enterprise. In Smutty Little Pictures Peter Alilunas picks up the story just as hard core is pushed back underground in the late 1970s and early …

  • Portraits from the edge — Kiribati — putting a face to climate change

    Open AccessJon LewisARTICLEVisual Communication2010

  • Presumed Effects of Erotica: Some Notes on the Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography

    Jon LewisARTICLEFilm International2008

    Preview this article: Presumed Effects of Erotica: Some Notes on the Report of the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, Page 1 of 1 /docserver/preview/fulltext/fint/6/6/s2-1.gif

  • The Utah Version: Some Notes on the Relative Integrity of the Hollywood Product

    Jon LewisARTICLEFilm International2003

    To protect studio copyrights in the marketplace and to maintain good public relations is supposed to be two prinicipal aspects of the contemporary MPAA directive. But what what happens when these directives are at odds with each other? Jon Lewis has a strange story to tell about local consorship

  • The Perfect Money Machine(s): George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Auteurism in the New Hollywood

    Jon LewisARTICLEFilm International2003

    Two of the world's most successful and important filmmakers in the last thirty years, George Lucas and Steven Spielberg, are also the most criticized. Jon Lewis looks back at two careers that has led Hollywood's march from renaissance to blockbuster ressurection

  • Public Pedagogy

    Jon LewisARTICLEAfterimage2002

    Review| December 01 2002 Public Pedagogy Breaking in to the Movies: Film and the Culture of Politics, by Henry A. Giroux, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2002, 297 pp./$59-95 (hb), $24.95 (sb) Jon Lewis Jon Lewis Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (2002) 30 (3-4): 17. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.2002.30.3-4.17 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Sha…

  • Soldiers at War

    R A Johnson, Rossiter Johnson et al.ARTICLEThe Journal of Military History2002

  • Hollywood Modernism: Film and Politics in the Age of the New Deal

    Jon Lewis, Saverio GiovacchiniARTICLEJournal of American History2002

    Saverio Giovacchini's Hollywood Modernism focuses on the “struggles and contradictions” of the Hollywood community in the 1930s and 1940s. The book proposes “a social history” of Hollywood by focusing on the various networks of European refugees and transplanted New Yorkers whose political activity during this turbulent time eventually became a subject of national concern. Like another recent book, Gerald Horne's Class Struggle in Hollywood, 1930…

  • Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film Industry

    William Paul, Jon LewisARTICLEJournal of American History2002Cited by: 5

    Early in Hollywood v. Hard Core, Jon Lewis promises a book “structured less like an academic history than a novel.” What this seems to mean is free range over a very wide swath of film history, as far back as the formation of the Motion Picture Patents Company in 1908 and as recent as ratings battles for two films released in 1999. Through all this, it is difficult to discern a coherent argument beyond the repeated claim that Hollywood executives…

  • End of Cinema As We Know It: American Film in the Nineties

    Jon LewisBOOKEnd of Cinema As We Know It2001

  • The Last Vaudevillian

    Jon Lewis, Jeffrey RuoffARTICLEWestern Folklore2001

    The Last Vaudevillian. 1998. Directed by Jeffrey Ruoff. 30 min. 1/2 Video, Color. Distributed by Jeffrey Ruoff, Film/Video Department, Wright Theater, Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont, 05753. n.p. The travel documentary, as a genre, dates to the 1890s, back to the very first experiments linking the technological miracle of moving pictures to the traveling variety show. The Lumiere brothers, their New York, Broadway et Union Square (1896), …

  • Labor Crisis

    Jon LewisARTICLEAfterimage1998

    Essay| December 01 1998 Labor Crisis Jon Lewis Jon Lewis Jon Lewis is professor of English at Oregon State University. He is the author of The New American Cinema (Duke University Press, 1998). Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1998) 26 (3): 4–6. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1998.26.3.4a Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer Review Share Icon Share…

  • Pratice What You Preach

    Jon LewisARTICLEAfterimage1996

    Review| June 01 1996 Pratice What You Preach Rethinking Media Literacy: A Critical Pedagogy of Representation edited by Peter McLaren, Rhonda Hammer, David Scholle and Susan Reilly, Peter Lang, 1995 259 pp./$49.95 (hb) Jon Lewis Jon Lewis Jon Lewis teaches film and cultural studies in the English Department at Oregon State University. He is the author of The Road to Romance and Ruin: Teen Films and Youth Culture (1992) and Whom Cod Wishes to Dest…

  • Different Difference

    Jon LewisARTICLEAfterimage1992

    Review| February 01 1992 Different Difference The Difficulty of Difference: Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference and Film Theory by D. N. Rodowick, New York: R outledge/ 162 pp./$37.50, (hb)/$13.95 (sb). Jon Lewis Jon Lewis Jon Lewis teaches film and video in the English department at Oregon State University. Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1992) 19 (7): 14. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1992.19.7.…

  • Silicon Ardor

    Jon LewisARTICLEAfterimage1991

    Review| November 01 1991 Silicon Ardor Technoculture, edited by Constance Penley and Andrew Ross, University of Minnesota Press/ 327 pp/ (sb) $15.95 Jon Lewis Jon Lewis Jon Lewis is an associate professor in the English Department at Oregon State University Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Afterimage (1991) 19 (4): 13–14. https://doi.org/10.1525/aft.1991.19.4.13 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & …