Jerome F. Shapiro
Jerome F. Shapiro currently is a recovering academic, and resides in Central Ohio. He is the author of numerous academic and trade articles on U.S. and Japanese culture, particularly film, and the book Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film (Routledge, 2001). He is currently working on a study of the image of trauma in popular film, one that articulates a more vibrant Jewish voice in the discourse of the West.
In Loco Propagandist
April 2026:Last October, Wittenberg University in Springfield, Ohio, sponsored a public lecture: “Understanding Gaza.” I’ve been thinking about that lecture ever since. That’s way too long, wouldn’t you say? I’m hoping that by writing about it I can finally get the gobbledygook I heard out of my head.
Read Article »A Modern-Day “J’Accuse” in Springfield, Ohio
November 2024:The press demands, hectors even, public servants to make themselves accountable to the people by giving interviews to the press, knowing full well it is a suicide mission.
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