Best-selling cultural critic and film historian, Peter Biskind, was editor-in-chief of American Film magazine from 1981 to 1986, and executive editor of Premiere magazine from 1986 to 1996. His writing has appeared in scores of national publications, including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Rolling Stone, The Nation, Newsweek, Vanity Fair, the Washington Post, as well as film journals such as Sight and Sound and Film Quarterly. He has published eight books, most of which have been translated into several languages. peterbiskind.com