Parker Tyler
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Harrison Parker Tyler, better known as Parker Tyler was born March 6, 1904, in New Orleans and died in June 1974 in New York City.
He was an author, poet and film critic. Tyler lived for many years with filmmaker Charles Boultenhouse (1926-1994).
He co-authored The Young and Evil (Obelisk Press, 1933) with Charles Henri Ford, an energetically experimental novel with obvious debts to fellow Villager Djuna Barnes, and also to Gertrude Stein. Tyler and Ford co-edited the Surrealist 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 on experimental film and underground film. His Screening the Sexes (1972) is thought to be the first book-length study of homosexuality in film.
