[Frameworks] Sad News--Chuck Kleinhans

[Jonathan Walley]

Chuck’s last email to Frameworks (if my email’s memory is accurate), on the subject “asking for a friend:” 

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I thought Green Eggs and Ham was better.  

You seem to see some connection between warning the soldiers of an occupying army not to fraternize with the locals and sexual harassment of filmmakers?  Or are filmmakers the harassers?
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As always with Chuck, a combination of fun and warmth, even a little silliness, irreverent humor (and irreverence in general), and sharp thinking. When I met him a few years back at a conference, I found him much the same in person. I knew whenever I saw his name in my email inbox I was in for a good read, however brief. I’m sad that there won’t be any more.

Jonathan

Dr. Jonathan Walley
Associate Professor and Chair
Department of Cinema
Denison University
walleyj at denison.edu

> On Dec 16, 2017, at 8:13 AM, Green, Ron Green <green.31 at osu.edu> wrote:
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> I am so sorry to hear this. Chuck was a constant, happy, generous, welcoming, open-minded, open-hearted, brave and funny pioneer of our field. He helped break new trails for our generation in left-cinema studies, sex studies, women's studies, black studies, and many other areas, including early academic film studies. Jump Cut is one huge, representative monument to Chuck's contributions, the most inclusive journal we have, a broad and deep, long-take of that field. This is a painful loss. 
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