Auteur: Lewis Jon Lewis

Of all the job titles listed in the opening and closing screen credits, producer is certainly the most amorphous. There are businessmen (and women)-producers, writer-director- and movie-star-producer …

Film scholarship has long been dominated by textual interpretations of specific films. Looking Past the Screen advances a more expansive American film studies in which cinema is understood to be a so …

In March 1980 Francis Coppola purchased the dilapidated Hollywood General Studios facility with the hope and dream of creating a radically new kind of studio, one that would revolutionize filmmaking, …

Screenwriters often joke that no one ever paid a dollar at a movie theater to watch a screenplay. Yet the screenplay is where a movie begins, determining whether a production gets the green light fro …

Francis Ford Coppola »s The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success – as a work of art, as a creative  »property » exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; a …

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success as a work of art, as a creative ‘property’ exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as …

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather (1972) marked a transition in American film-making, and its success as a work of art, as a creative ‘property’ exploited by its studio, Paramount Pictures; and as …

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Part II (1974) is a magisterial cinematic work, a gorgeous, stylized, auteur epic, and one of the few sequels judged by many to be greater than its predecessor. …

Francis Ford Coppola’s The Godfather, Part II (1974) is a magisterial cinematic work, a gorgeous, stylized, auteur epic, and one of the few sequels judged by many to be greater than its predecessor. …