Foreword: Allen Smithee Redux vii Andrew Sarris Acknowledgments xvii I The Forging of Smithee Studies The Specter of Illegitimacy in an Age of Disillusion and Crisis 3(26) Jeremy Braddock Stephen Hock Artificial Auteurism and the Political Economy of the Allen Smithee Case 29(22) Craig Saper The Automatic Auteur; or, A Certain Tendency in Film Criticism 51(28) Robert B. Ray II Smithee Studies Allen Smithees Death of a Gunfighter: ``A Casualty of Hollywoods Excluded Middle 79(22) Donald E. Pease Smithee in The Twilight Zone: The People v. John Landis et al. and Other Trials of Authorship 101(20) Jessie Labov Signateurism and the Case of Allen Smithee 121(22) Christian Keathley Smithees Incorporation 143(32) Jeremy Braddock This Is Too Big for One Old Name: Hitchcock and Smithee in the Signature Centrifuge 175 Stephen Hock