Parker Tyler
Born(1904-03-06)March 6, 1904
New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.
DiedJuly 24, 1974(1974-07-24) (aged 70)
New York City, New York, U.S.
Occupation(s)Author, poet, film critic
Known forScreening the Sexes
Notable workThe Young and Evil
PartnerCharles Boultenhouse (1945–1974)

Harrison Parker Tyler (March 6, 1904 – July 24, 1974), was an American author, poet, and film critic. Tyler had a relationship with underground filmmaker Charles Boultenhouse (1926–1994) from 1945 until his death. Their papers are held by the New York Public Library.[1]

He often wrote for the View, the Kenyon Review, Partisan Review, Evergreen Review, and the cineaste magazines Film Culture, and Film Quarterly. Some of his books are collections of his magazine work. He received a Longview Award for Poetry in 1958.[citation needed] He wrote a biography about modernist painter Florine Stettheimer.[2]

Tyler was mentioned several times in the novel Myra Breckinridge (1968) by Gore Vidal, bringing renewed attention to Tyler's film criticism.[3] This led Vidal to claim that "I've done for [Tyler] what Edward Albee did for Virginia Woolf" after The Hollywood Hallucination and Magic and Myth of the Movies were republished in 1970.[3]

Black Sparrow Press published his poetry, including a complete and corrected text of The Granite Butterfly, first published with Bern Porter, Berkeley, Calif., 1945, as The Will of Eros: Selected Poems 1930-1970 (1972).

Tyler died in New York City, where he lived, on July 24, 1974, at the age of 70.[4]

Works

Tyler's books of film criticism include:

References

  1. ^ Stingone, William (August 1997), Charles Boultenhouse and Parker Tyler Papers, 1927–1994 (PDF), New York Public Library, archived from the original (PDF) on July 27, 2011
  2. ^ Tessler, Nira (2015). Flowers and Towers: Politics of Identity in the Art of the American "New Woman". Cambridge Scholars Publishing. p. 115. ISBN 9781443886239.
  3. ^ a b Bordwell, David (2016). The Rhapsodes: How 1940s Critics Changed American Film Culture. University of Chicago Press. p. 112. ISBN 978-0226352206.
  4. ^ "PARKER TYLER, 70, A WRITER ON FILMS". The New York Times. Retrieved July 17, 2023.

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