About the Author

Jon Lewis (Ph.D., 1983 UCLA) is  a Professor in the English department at Oregon  State University, where he has taught film and  cultural studies since 1983. He has published  five books: The Road to Romance and Ruin:  Teen Films and Youth Culture (Routledge,  1992); Whom God Wishes to Destroy . . .  Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood (Duke UP, 1995); The New American Cinema (Duke UP, 1998); Hollywood v. Hard Core: How the  Struggle over Censorship Saved the Modern Film  Industry (NYU Press, 2000); and The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the  Nineties (NYU Press, 2001). 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). From 2002 to  2007, he was the Editor of Cinema  Journal.