Dr. Paul Seydor
Professor
Film and Media Arts, Lawrence and Kristina Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
Expertise: Film Editing; Visual and Dramatic Storytelling; Critical and Historical Writing
Office Location: Marion Knott Studios 272
Phone: (714) 744-7901
Email: seydor@chapman.edu
- Education:
- The Pennsylvania State University, Bachelor of Arts
The Pennsylvania State University, Master of Arts
University of Iowa, Ph.D.
Biography
Editor Paul Seydor has a unique background, combining a Ph.D. in American Civilization
with a triple emphasis in American Literature, American Intellectual History and Film
from the University of Iowa, with scholarly research and writing, and a major career
in filmmaking honored by an Academy Award nomination and an American Cinema Editors
award. In the industry, his work with a long list of impressive directors, including
Ron Shelton, is testament to his reputation. Paul has taught at both the University
of Southern California and the University of Iowa. His books on director Sam Peckinpah
gave birth to a reevaluation of Peckinpah as a master director in American cinema.
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Recent Creative, Scholarly Work and Publications
- "Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra and the Birth of the Concept Album." Tracking Angle. Posted December 23, 2024. https://trackingangle.com/music/sing-and-dance-with-frank-sinatra
- Commenced work on the 50th Anniversary Restoration of Pecknpah's Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid for Criterion.
- 2020 Completed postproduction on "Infidel," written and directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh. FIlm released summer 2020.
- "he Wild Bunch: Originality and Convention: chapter in anthology "A Uniquely American Epic": Intimacy and Action, Tenderness and Violence in Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch," editor Michael Bliss, University of Kentucky Press, Fall 2019.
- 2018-19: finished editing film "Infidel," written and directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh, release winter 2020.
- 2019 finished editing film "I'll Find You," written by David Ward, directed by Martha Coolidge.
- " 'The First Cut Is the Most Important Cut,' An Interview with Joel Cox." Ed. Matt Wanat and Leonard Engel. The Films of Clint Eastwood: Critical Perspectives. University of New Mexico Press, 2018.
- began editing feature film Music, Love, & War, written by David Ward, directed by Martha Coolidge, in postproduction, 2018
- 2. Completed editing Villa Capri, a feature film written and directed by Ron Shelton, for Broad Green Films. Release date December 2017.
- Peckinpah: A Guide to Resources. Oxford University Press online bibliographies. Posted February 2017: annotated bibliography of all the important research, criticism, scholarship, and biography on the American film director Sam Peckinpah and his films.
- Big Brims. True West Magazine. 2016.
- Review of The Western Real and Imagined. True West Magazine. 2015
- The Faults Do Not Matter. True West Magazine. 2015
- completed editing of The Young Messiah for Focus Features, Spring 2015.
- THE AUTHENTIC DEATH AND CONTENTIOUS AFTERLIFE OF PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID: THE UNTOLD STORY OF PECKINPAH'S LAST WESTERN FILM. Northwestern University Press, February 2015
- Edited CHRIST THE LORD. A screen adaptation of Anne Rice's novel, directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh for Focus Features. started 2014, completed 2015, release Spring 2016.