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MD Walker

Scarlet Street Books?

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Dec 3 01 11:23 PM

I can't see myself buying a book on the Dorian Gray stuff but I'd certainly be first in line to purchase something along the lines of the Scarlet Street Book of Film Noir. Or even (dare I say it?) a book compiling the Scarlet Street efforts of Ken Hanke. A collection of his pieces on Poverty Row, Columbia, etc horrors would be a book I'd spring for.

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MD Walker

Re: SUGGESTIONS FOR FUTURE ISSUES

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Dec 3 01 11:43 PM

The suggestion for an article on black horror films is an interesting one I'd be curious to read. I know there's a writer who's been published by Scarecrow Press named Henry T. Sampson who might be a good choice for such an article, or another fellow named Daniel Leab, who has written about the black experience in film.

If SS ever decides to green light the project, I could put Richard in touch with either of these fellows.

Ken Hanke

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Dec 6 01 11:18 AM

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<<Or even (dare I say it?) a book compiling the Scarlet Street efforts of Ken Hanke. A collection of his pieces on Poverty Row, Columbia, etc horrors would be a book I'd spring for.>>

You can most certainly say it, Michael. I've actually given some (very passing) thought to assembling such a thing myself, but I'm not at all sure that the lack of a really unifying theme doesn't go against it.

kevin g shinnick

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Dec 21 01 2:50 AM

I'd like to see a Hanke book, and yes, the black horror film book sounds really great.

HarryLong

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Dec 21 01 11:01 AM

Aside from individual articles on individual films I can't even recall much in the way of articles on Black horror films. Admittedly most of them suffered from extremely deprived budgets but that hasn't stopped exploration of Ed Woods or Ed Bernds. I think examining these films is well overdue -- and is it patronizing to suggest that it be done by a Black writer who'd bring the additional cultural perspective?

Richard Valley

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Dec 21 01 6:02 PM

>>and is it patronizing to suggest that it be done by a Black writer who'd bring the additional cultural perspective?<<

It isn't absolutely necessary, but it couldn't hurt . . .

kevin g shinnick

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Jan 2 02 2:30 AM

An interesting question .... does one have to have the same socio-political-cultural background to do such a history?

They , of course, will bring a certain perspective to such a history,but does that discount the histories and works written by, for want of a better term, outsiders?

This is somewhat of the argument going on in school's today- are they too eurocentric in their look at history , or ios it possible to present an accurate WORLD view of events ?

Historical revisionism is a problem --

but a historical insight is always welcomed- a way of looking at a subject from a different perspective we may not have had previously ...

Ted A Bohus

Re: Things in SS

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Jan 28 02 3:59 AM

Let's have MORE SCIENCE-FICTION film articles...and interviews...and rare behind-the-scenes pix. Some cool MONSTER STUFF couldn't hurt!

DonM435

Re: Things in SS

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Jan 28 02 8:30 AM

"[R]are behind-the-scenes pix", and "cool MONSTER STUFF"!? Ted, are you recycling a note you wrote to FAMOUS MONSTERS forty years ago?

Lelia Loban

Re: Things in SS

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Jan 28 02 12:35 PM

Funny you should mention Things, Ted. I'm just starting work on an article about a classic 1950s monster movie and its sequels. Think wet and scaly.

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HarryLong

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Jan 29 02 10:39 AM

>>Think wet and scaly. <<
You're doing an article on my Ex?

Lelia Loban

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Jan 29 02 3:13 PM

>>Think wet and scaly. <<
>You're doing an article on my Ex?>

Well, such a liason would have been technically possible, I think.

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SSSubjects

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Jan 30 02 12:49 AM

I'd love to see more material on classic-era *scenarists*, including interviews with surviving writers, examining how they developed their material, A, B, and C pictures, within both the studio system and independently. Also, something, anything on Richard Gordon: frankly, I think this man would be worth an entire book, as he has been active in both the British and American film industries, a part of production, releasing and distribution - and still is - and not just his SF/horror material but his entire career, before he leaves us.

Richard Valley

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Jan 30 02 4:18 AM

An article about screenwriter DeWitt Bodeen is on the Scarlet agenda, Rich . . .

srsbap

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Jan 30 02 10:48 PM

TOM TRYON AND STEPHEN BOYD ??
MAYBE ARTICLES ABOUT THEIR CONTRIBUTION TO FILMS
OF THE 50s and 60s. ALONG WITH TRYONS BOOKS-"CROWNED HEADS","LADY", AND "HARVEST HOME" ???

Richard Valley

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Jan 31 02 12:31 AM

I very much want to run a Tom Tryon article if someone can come up with something including reminiscences of those who knew him . . .

John Thomas Soister

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Jan 31 02 8:41 AM

I second Rich's observation about a piece on Richard Gordon and would suggest that the right fellow to do this would be John R. Duvoli, who has been Boswell to Gordon's Johnson for the last 40 years.

Ken Hanke

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Jan 31 02 11:35 AM

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<<who has been Boswell to Gordon's Johnson for the last 40 years. >>

I'd feel more comfortable with slightly different phrasing, John...

HarryLong

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Jan 31 02 1:13 PM

Is Boswell one of those euphemisms like Lewinsky's become?

Richard Valley

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Feb 1 02 12:20 PM

Ken, have you given any further thought to a book collecting your various Scarlet Street articles . . .?

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