- Parker Tyler
Harrison Parker Tyler, better known as Parker Tyler (born
6 March 1904 ,New Orleans - died in June 1974,New York City ofprostate cancer ) was an American author, poet, andfilm critic . Tyler lived with underground filmmakerCharles Boultenhouse (1926-1994) from 1945 until his death.He co-authored "
The Young and Evil " (Obelisk Press , 1933) withCharles Henri Ford , an energetically experimental novel with obvious debts to fellow VillagerDjuna Barnes , and also toGertrude Stein . Tyler and Ford co-edited theSurrealist magazine "View" until it folded in 1947.A writer for the journal "
Film Culture ", Tyler is one of the few film critics to write extensively onexperimental film and underground film. His "Screening the Sexes" (1972) is thought to be the first book-length study ofhomosexuality in film. Other books of film criticism by Tyler include "The Hollywood Hallucination" (1944), "Magic and Myth of the Movies" (1947), "Classics of Foreign Film" (1962), "Sex Psyche Etcetera in the Film" (1969), and "The Shadow of an Airplane Climbs the Empire State Building" (1973).Tyler's books became popular -- and some old titles reissued after being out-of-print for years -- after Tyler was mentioned several times in the novel "
Myra Breckinridge " (1968) byGore Vidal .External links
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1154314 Parker Tyler at IMDB]
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