Anthony Petkovich is a freelance journalist based in Los Angeles who currently writes for Shock Cinema and Filmfax magazines. The author of The X Factory: Inside the Hardcore American Film Industry (Critical Vision, 1997), Petkovich has previously written for Psychotronic Video Magazine and Headpress U.K. (The Journal of Sex, Religion, Death), as well as worked on Spectator, Hustler (as managing editor for both publications) and Adam Film World Guide (as editor-in-chief).