Contents The Western: The Losing Of The West (article by William Park); Zane Grey and W.S. Hart: The Romantic Western Of The 1920s (article by John G. Cawelti); The Reformation Of The Good Badman (article by Charles Reed Mitchell and Frank Scheide); Selected Sound Westerns And Their Novel Sources (article by Gerald Peary); Nicholas Ray's JOHNNY GUITAR (review article by Michael Wilmington); Talking And Doing In RIO BRAVO (review article by Richard T. Jameson); Once Upon A Time In Italy: The Italian Western Beyond Leone (article by Stuart M. Kaminsky); Same Peckinpah's PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID (review article by Garner Simmons); JEREMIAH JOHNSON: The Mountain Man As Modern Hero (review article by Patricia Erens).Book Reviews: including "Westerns" by Philip French and "THe Western: From Silents To The 70s" by George N. Fenin and William K. Everson.

Contents Towards A Definition Of Filmnoia (article by George Wead); William Friedkin...Exorcist (article by Mark Falonga); Violence And Film: The Thesis Of A CLOCKWORK ORANGE (article by Walter Evans); Roman Polanski's CHINATOWN (article by Michael Wilmington); Robert Mulligan: Direction By Indirection (article by John Belton); Detecting, Defecting And Whistling In The Dark: The Recent Films Of Blake Edwards (article by William Luhr and Peter Lehman); Subjective Cinema: The Films Of Noel Black (article by Peter Nelhaus); The Search For Self In The Films Of Nicolas Roeg (article by Richard Wagner); The BILLY JACK Phenomenon (article by Ted Siminoski); Let It Run (article by Peter Hogue); Eight Notes On The Underground (article by Russell Campbell); Formalist Cinema: Artistic Suicide In The Avant-Garde (article by Ellen Freyer).Book Reviews: including "Pieces Of Time" by Peter Bogdanovich and "The Comic Mind" by Gerald Mast.