![]() ![]() So although I did read Marisha Pessl's Night Film before I started writing, most of my inspiration came from either nonfiction sources-I'm a big fan of the BFI Film Studies series in all its variations, and Danny Peary's Cult Movies trilogy of reference books-or from the one-two punch of Ramsey Campbell's absolutely amazing Ancient Images (which revolves around the search for a lost British-made Boris Karloff/Bela Lugosi movie that may have been censored for containing references to a noble family's pact with dark powers) vs. ![]() Gemma Files: I'd like to start by making the point that I haven't actually read any of the cited books aside from Flicker, and I've just started reading that-I picked up a copy down at Readercon, right before I won the Shirley Jackson Award for Best Novel. How do you conceive of the differences between these mediums, and is Experimental Film an attempt to bridge that difference? Murray Leeder: Experimental Film joins Walker Percy’s The Movie-goer, Theodore Roszak’s Flicker, Steve Erickson’s Zeroville and others in the peculiar category of literary fiction about cinema, and even invokes a kind of “cinematic” quality in its section headings. ![]()
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