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Screening The Sexes
Parker Tyler (1904-1974) was a noted American film critic, and this text is regarded as his most significant work. Devoted to homosexuality in films, it aims to look beyond the obvious and to observe the psychology of sex roles, at the same time recognising film as the realm of contemporary mythology. Tyler was once described as one of the most consistently interesting and provocative writers on film that America has produced, well-informed and free of cant.
The Young and the Evil
Praised unflinchingly by Djuna Barnes and Gertrude Stein, this stunning work, first published in 1933 by the Obelisk Press, Paris, is a non-judgemental depiction of gay life and men who earn their living there, told through characters like Julian (modeled on Ford) and Karel (based on Tyler).
Underground Film
Parker Tyler (1904-1974), one of the few great American film critics, was intimate with and enormously respected by many of the underground and experimental filmmakers of his time. In this book, Tyler evaluated the Underground in general and the seminal films in particular, covering the history and scope of the genre with insight and verve. Like Tyler's Screening of the Sexes: Homosexuality in the Movies is one of the masterpieces of cinema literature.
Underground Film
"What really goes on in Underground Film, in the scenes and behind them? How can the Underground be evaluated, both historically and at the moment? This definitive history of the experimental film movement, whose center today is the American Underground, offers appreciative but outspoken answers. Parker Tyler was the first critic to write seriously about the early Underground filmmakers, especially about Stan Brakhage, Sidney Peterson, Gregory Markopoulos, Willard Maas, and Maya Deren. Here he assesses their work along with that of Kenneth Anger, Ed Emshwiller, Ron Rice, Peter Kubelka, James Whitney, Stan VanDerBeek, Andy Warhol, Bruce Conner, Paul Sharits, Charles Boultenhouse, and other im...
Sex in Films
Hovedsageligt film fra før 1980.
Sex Psyche Etcetera in the Film
Tyler was an influential critic, fairly openly gay when it was still bad for one's career.--Misha Schutt.
