Jim Kitses

Jim Kitses is Emeritus Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, USA. An expanded edition of Horizons West , his pioneering text in Western and genre studies, was published by BFI in 2004. He has also co-edited The Western Reader (1998), contributed a study of the film noir classic Gun Crazy (BFI, 1996) and authored the commentary for the DVD of 7 Men From Now, the first acclaimed cycle of Budd Boetticher-directed Westerns.

Jim Kitses is Emeritus Professor in the School of Cinema at San Francisco State University, USA. An expanded edition of Horizons West , his pioneering text in Western and genre studies, was published by BFI in 2004. He has also co-edited The Western Reader (1998), contributed a study of the film noir classic Gun Crazy (BFI, 1996) and authored the commentary for the DVD of 7 Men From Now, the first acclaimed cycle of Budd Boetticher-directed Westerns. See less