Background
Randolph Lewis was born on December 2, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He is the son of Thomas and Joyce Lewis.
Austin, TX 78712, United States
Lewis holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy (1994) from the University of Texas at Austin.
Photo of Randolph Lewis
Photo of Randolph Lewis
Photo of Randolph Lewis
Photo of Randolph Lewis
Austin, TX 78712, United States
Lewis holds a Bachelor of Arts, a Master of Arts, and a Doctor of Philosophy (1994) from the University of Texas at Austin.
Photo of Randolph Lewis
Photo of Randolph Lewis
Photo of Randolph Lewis
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https://www.amazon.com/Emile-Antonio-Radical-Filmmaker-America/dp/0299169103/ref=sr_1_14?dchild=1&keywords=Randolph+Lewis&qid=1608715820&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-14
2000
(In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Ala...)
In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Alanis Obomsawin has waged a brilliant battle against the ignorance and stereotypes that Native Americans have long endured in cinema and television. In this book, the first devoted to any Native filmmaker, Obomsawin receives her due as the central figure in the development of indigenous media in North America. Incorporating history, politics, and film theory into a compelling narrative, Randolph Lewis explores the life and work of a multifaceted woman whose career was flourishing long before Native films such as Smoke Signals reached the screen. He traces Obomsawin's path from an impoverished Abenaki reserve in the 1930s to bohemian Montreal in the 1960s, where she first found fame as a traditional storyteller and singer. Lewis follows her career as a celebrated documentary filmmaker, citing her courage in covering, at great personal risk, the 1991 Oka Crisis between Mohawk warriors and Canadian soldiers. We see how, since the late 1960s, Obomsawin has transformed documentary film, reshaping it for the first time into a crucial forum for sharing indigenous perspectives. Through a careful examination of her work, Lewis proposes a new vision for indigenous media around the globe: a "cinema of sovereignty" based on what Obomsawin has accomplished.
https://www.amazon.com/Alanis-Obomsawin-Vision-Filmmaker-American-ebook/dp/B003S9WZQW/ref=sr_1_11?dchild=1&keywords=Randolph+Lewis&qid=1608715820&sr=8-11
2006
(Navajo Talking Picture, released in 1985, is one of the e...)
Navajo Talking Picture, released in 1985, is one of the earliest and most controversial works of Native cinema. It is a documentary by Los Angeles filmmaker Arlene Bowman, who travels to the Navajo reservation to record the traditional ways of her grandmother in order to understand her own cultural heritage. For reasons that have often confused viewers, the filmmaker persists despite her traditional grandmother’s forceful objections to the apparent invasion of her privacy. What emerges is a strange and thought-provoking work that abruptly calls into question the issue of insider versus outsider and other assumptions that have obscured the complexities of Native art. Randolph Lewis offers an insightful introduction and analysis of Navajo Talking Picture, in which he shows that it is not simply the first Navajo-produced film but also a path-breaking work in the history of indigenous media in the United States.
https://www.amazon.com/Navajo-Talking-Picture-Cinema-Indigenous/dp/080323841X/ref=sr_1_7?dchild=1&keywords=Randolph+Lewis&qid=1608715820&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-7
2012
(Never before has so much been known about so many. CCTV c...)
Never before has so much been known about so many. CCTV cameras, TSA scanners, NSA databases, big data marketers, predator drones, "stop and frisk" tactics, Facebook algorithms, hidden spyware, and even old-fashioned nosy neighbors - surveillance has become so ubiquitous that we take its presence for granted. While many types of surveillance are pitched as ways to make us safer, almost no one has examined the unintended consequences of living under constant scrutiny and how it changes the way we think and feel about the world. In Under Surveillance, Randolph Lewis offers a highly original look at the emotional, ethical, and aesthetic challenges of living with surveillance in America since 9/11. Lewis explores the growth of surveillance in surprising places, such as childhood and nature. He traces the rise of businesses designed to provide surveillance and security, including those that cater to the Bible Belt's houses of worship. And he peers into the dark side of playful surveillance, such as eBay's Online guide to "Fun with Surveillance Gadgets." A worried but ultimately genial guide to this landscape, Lewis helps us see the hidden costs of living in a "control society" in which surveillance is deemed essential to governance and business alike.
https://www.amazon.com/Under-Surveillance-Watched-Modern-America/dp/B07CHVZJYX/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Randolph+Lewis&qid=1608715820&sr=8-1
2017
Randolph Lewis was born on December 2, 1966, in Brooklyn, New York, United States. He is the son of Thomas and Joyce Lewis.
Lewis holds a Bachelor of Arts (1988), a Master of Arts (1990), and a Doctor of Philosophy (1994) from the University of Texas at Austin.
Randolph Lewis started his teaching career as a lecturer of the Department of History at California State University, Hayward from 1994 to 1995. He then was an assistant professor of American studies and director of interdisciplinary studies at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma from 1998 to 2001. His next appointment was as an assistant professor of Film and Video Studies (2001-2003), then, associate professor of Film and Video Studies (2003-2009) at the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Oklahoma. From 2009 to 2013 Lewis held a position of associate professor of American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and since 2013 he is a professor of American Studies.
In his first book, Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America (2000), Randolf detailed the collision of independent media and mainstream society in sixties America. In 2006 he published Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Filmmaker, the first book devoted to an indigenous filmmaker. In 2012 Lewis published Navajo Talking Picture: Cinema on Native Ground, an examination of the cinematic Southwest. He is also the co-editor of a book series called Native Film for the University of Nebraska Press, which Lewis launched with David Delgado Shorter in 2010.
In 2017 Lewis published Under Surveillance: Being Watched in Modern America, a book that examines the hidden impact of surveillance technologies now proliferating in the contemporary United States. This research was featured in a National Geographic cover story as well as in the Atlantic, the Texas Observer, the New York Times (twice), and elsewhere.
Over the years Lewis has written for publications including The Boston Review, The Baltimore Sun, Flow, Inside Higher Ed., Zocalo Public Square, Jump Cut, The Velvet Light Trap, American Indian Quarterly, Transformations, Senses of Cinema, The Canadian Review of American Studies, and The Brooklyn Rail, where he was a contributing writer.
Beginning in 2011 Lewis established an editorial board of graduate students to create The End of Austin, an award-winning digital humanities project that explores urban identity in the fastest growing city in the United States. The End of Austin has received 250,000 page views from around the world, all for a cost of less than $100 annually.
In 2019 Randolph released an album of experimental music under the name Part-Time Genius, which was a featured release in Waterloo Records in May 2019.
Lewis also has an ongoing interest in video production that has resulted in a number of short films, music videos, and several documentary films, including one that he co-produced after a year that he spent as a Senior Fulbright Lecturer at the University of Catania in Italy. That ethnographic film is called Texas Tavola: A Taste of Sicily in the Lone Star State, and it has been screened at a number of festivals, academic conferences, universities, and on access TV in New York City. In 2011 it was the subject of a Masters Thesis by an Italian graduate student at the University of Sienna. Most recently, in 2020, Randolph and Monti Sigg co-produced a half-hour documentary film about apocalypse culture called Who Killed the World? A Journey into the Wasteland, which they are currently submitting to film festivals.
(In more than twenty powerful films, Abenaki filmmaker Ala...)
2006(Navajo Talking Picture, released in 1985, is one of the e...)
2012(Never before has so much been known about so many. CCTV c...)
2017Randolph married Circe Sturm, an anthropologist and professor, on June 4, 1993.
