Gene D. Phillips, SJ, is the author of several works on film and literature, including Beyond the Epic: The Life and Films ofDavid Lean, Some Like It Wilder: The Life and Controversial Films of Billy Wilder, and Out of the Shadows: Expanding the Canon of Classic Film Noir (Scarecrow, 2011). He is the coauthor of The Francis Ford Coppola Encyclopedia (Scarecrow, 2010).