Lindley Hall Office: Room 382

PhD - University of Iowa, Dept. of Communication Studies, Film Studies

BA - University of California at Berkeley, Film Studies

Louis-Georges Schwartz teaches contemporary cinema, film analysis, and film theory. His book, Mechanical Witness, A history of motion picture evidence in U.S. Courts was recently published by the Oxford University press. Mechanical Witness is the first cultural and legal history charting the changing role and theoretical implications of film and video use as courtroom evidence.

He is working on a second manuscript on film and bio-politics entitled “Cinema and the Meaning of Life."