JIM KITSES has taught film in England, Canada and his native 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 (Limelight Editions: New York, 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.