JUMP CUT
A REVIEW OF CONTEMPORARY MEDIA

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Joan Hawkins

Joan Hawkins teaches Film Studies in the Department of Communication and Culture at Indiana University Bloomington. She has written one book, Cutting Edge: Art Horror and the Horrific Avant-garde (University of Minnesota Press, 2000), as well as numerous essays on horror, the 1960s avant-garde, Downtown Cinema, performance art and the cultural politics of exhibition. She is currently editing an anthology on Downtown Cinema, 1975-2001.

She can be reached via e-mail jchawkin@indiana.edu.