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191 Contributors Michael Bliss teaches film criticism and English at Virginia Tech. Bliss’s books include Justified Lives: Morality and Narrative in the Films of Sam Peckinpah, Doing It Right: The Best Criticism on Sam Peckinpah’s “The Wild Bunch,” and Dreams within a Dream: The Films of Peter Weir. He recently completed writing Martians, Metaphor, and Madness, a book on 1950s American science fiction films. Gérard Camy teaches cinema studies as a historian and is a critic (in Telerama magazine and Jeune Cinéma) and writer. He is the head of Carnot Film School in Cannes and the president of Cannes Cinéma, an institutional board presiding over the organization of cinema events throughout the city of Cannes. Steven Lloyd has made sure that his nieces grew up unafraid of black-and-white movies. Despite being a film purist, he has written essays for Video Watchdog and has spent most of his career as a television production technician. Since 1969, his favorite director has been Sam Peckinpah. Stephen Prince is a professor of film at Virginia Tech and the author of Savage Cinema: Sam Peckinpah and the Rise of Ultraviolent Movies. His newest book is Firestorm: American Film in the Age of Terrorism. Paul Seydor is a film editor and professor of cinema at Chapman University’s Dodge College of Film and Media Arts, where he teaches advanced editing and other aspects of filmmaking. A former professor of literature at the University of Southern California, he is the author of the seminal critical study Peckinpah: The Western Films, which was updated, expanded, and published under the title Peckinpah: The Western Films—A Reconsideration. Seydor has edited for several distinguished writers and directors, including Ron Shelton, Roger Spottiswoode, David Ward, Joe Sargent, Steve James, Kevin Sullivan, and Cyrus Nowrasteh on such films as White Men Can’t Jump, Cobb, Tin Cup, Play It to the Bone, Dark Blue, Hollywood Homicide, The Program, Major League II, The Wall, Passing Glory, Guess Who, Barbershop 2: Back in Business, Turner and Hooch, Time Flies When You’re Alive, This Christmas, and Obsessed. He has twice been nominated for the American Cinema Editors “Eddie,” winning for The Day Reagan Was Shot. He also wrote, directed, and edited the documentary The Wild Bunch: An Album in 192 Contributors Montage, which was nominated for an Academy Award for best achievement in a documentary short subject of 1996. In 2006, Seydor prepared a special edition of Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid for the Warner DVD set Sam Peckinpah ’s The Legendary Westerns Collection, for which he also provides part of the audio commentary. He is presently editing a feature-length documentary for Lehka Singh and Roger Spottiswoode called Beyond Right and Wrong: Stories of Justice, Reconciliation, and Forgiveness. Garner Simmons, a graduate of Colgate University and Northwestern University ’s Graduate School of Communication for Television and Film, has worked in both television and motion pictures as a writer, producer, and director. His biography on the late filmmaker Sam Peckinpah (Peckinpah: A Portrait in Montage) is still in print. He has lectured both in the United States and abroad and has contributed commentaries for the DVDs of ten of Peckinpah’s fourteen features. He is a member of the Writers Guild of America, the Writers Guild of Canada, the Directors Guild of America, and the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences. Married, he lives in Southern California. Michael Sragow is the author of Victor Fleming: An American Movie Master, cowinner of the National Arts Writing Award for 2008. He has taught criticism at the University of California–Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism and was the 2010 Humana Visiting Scholar at Centre College in Danville, Kentucky. He is a writer and an editor for the Baltimore Sun and contributes regularly to the New Yorker. He has also written for Salon.com, the Atlantic Monthly, the New York Times, and Rolling Stone, among other publications. He edited the Library of America’s two volumes of James Agee’s work, as well as Produced and Abandoned: The National Society of Film Critics Write on the Best Films You’ve Never Seen. He lives with his wife, Glenda Hobbs, in Baltimore. Cordell Strug studied philosophy at Purdue University and, through one twist of life after another, currently serves as a Lutheran pastor. He is old enough to have seen the last movies of John Ford and Orson Welles in actual theaters. He was once arrested by the FBI for...