Adam Lowenstein works on issues relating to the cinema as a mode of social, cultural, and physiological confrontation. His teaching and research link these issues to the relays between genre films and art films, the construction of national cinemas, and the politics of spectatorship. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in Cinema Journal, Post Script, and anthologies on British cinema and trauma/cinema studies. He is currently writing a book which examines the modern horror film in the context of sociohistorical trauma, with particular attention to American, British, Canadian, French, and Japanese national cinemas. He is an interviewed scholar in The American Nightmare (2000), a documentary investigation of 1960's and 1970's American horror films directed by Adam Simon and produced by Colin MacCabe.