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CORVALLIS - Jon Lewis, a professor of English at Oregon State University, has been named editor of Cinema Journal, the nation's leading critical and scholarly journal in film studies.

Cinema Journal is sponsored by the Society for Cinema Studies and presents recent scholarship by SCS members. The Society for Cinema Studies, founded in 1959, is a professional organization of film and television scholars with more than 1,000 members throughout the world. Its membership includes university faculty, graduate students, archivists, filmmakers, and others in the film industry.

Lewis, a nationally recognized expert in American film, will serve a five-year term as the journal's editor. Lewis is the author of "Whom God Wishes to Destroy: Francis Coppola and the New Hollywood" (1995) and "Hollywood v. Hard-Core," (2000). His recent collection of essays is titled "The End of Cinema as We Know It: American Film in the Nineties," (2002).

Lewis's work as editor will be supported by the Department of English, the Center for the Humanities, and the Research Office at Oregon State University.