RIP Tony Williams

 

British-born professor of English and Area Head of Film Studies at Southern Illinois University (SIU) in Carbondale, Illinois and author Tony Williams died on April 14 in Carbondale, Illinois, he was 80. Born Anthony J. Williams on January 11, 1946 in Swansea, Wales, U.K., Educated at Manchester and Warwick Universities, Tony authored and/or co-authored Italian Western: The Opera of Violence (1975); Jack London: The Movies (1992); Vietnam War Films (1994/2011); Hearths of Darkness: The Family in the American Horror Film (1996); Larry Cohen: The Radical Allegories of an American Filmmaker (1997); Jack London’s The Sea Wolf: A Screenplay by Robert Rossen (1998); The Cinema of George A. Romero: Knight of the Living Dead (2003); Body and Soul: The Cinematic Vision of Robert Aldrich (2004); John Woo’s Bullet in the Head (2009); and James Jones: The Limits of Eternity (2016).).