JUMP CUT
A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

The Dark Knight of the U.S. empire

Randolph Lewis

Randolph Lewis is the Rapp Foundation Presidential Professor of American Studies at the University of Oklahoma, where he is also Associate Dean of the Honors College. A former Contributing Writer for The Brooklyn Rail, he is the author of two books on documentary film — Emile de Antonio: Radical Filmmaker in Cold War America (Wisconsin, 2001), and Alanis Obomsawin: The Vision of a Native Artist (Nebraska, 2006). He is also co-editor of a book series on Native film for the University of Nebraska Press, and co-producer of the documentary film, Texas Tavola: A Taste of Sicily in the Lone Star State
(http://randolph.lewis.googlepages.com/texastavola).