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MIND MELD: What Purpose Does Short Fiction Serve?

2008-02-13 00:28:22 by Editor in SF Signal
 
...short fiction for many reasons, so a Mind Meld question about short fiction seemed to be in order. Trying to skirt around the futility of the "short fiction is dying" rhetoric (though learning something about that in the process) I asked a handful of Editors, some of them authors as well, to comment on the purpose of short fiction. The...
 
 
 
 
 
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MIND MELD: Is the Short Fiction Market in Trouble?

2008-04-16 00:28:18 by John in SF Signal
 
...short fiction market, so we turned the Mind Meld microphone to people in the field and asked them Q: Nobody questions the relevance of genre short fiction, but there is some debate about the health of the market itself. From your perspective, is the short fiction market in trouble? If not, why the debate? If so, what is the cause David Moles...
 
 
 
 
 
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Oscar's 2007 Live Action Short Films

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2008-02-19 21:31:54 by Editor in Ferdy on Films, etc.
...Short Films By Marilyn Ferdinand If ever there was a category that seems almost entirely irrelevant to the Oscars, it is Live Action Short Film. These nominees have been the province primarily of first-time directors, perhaps even projects for graduation from film school. They dont get general releases in theatres, at least, not here in the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Short People Got / No Reason

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2008-03-12 02:11:00 by Erich Kuersten in Bright Lights After Dark
...short guy characters bear in all matters of pre-code l'amour. The benefits of being tall--and able to sing--are tremendous in comparison to the short guys, played by Charlie Ruggles, Roland Young and Charles Butterworth, and Tyler Brooke, in the world of Lubitsch. Maybe it's tall guy guilt, but I found the uneven distribution of power in the...
 
 
 
 
 
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Short-Film Week: A Sweet, Whimsical, Dirty Movie About Rape or Regression

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2007-12-06 23:18:30 by Editor in Culture Snob
...short film in which a man conquers mammoth bare breasts and inserts his entire naked body into a woman's vagina. [And, magically, the number of Culture Snob readers grows exponentially.]) Shrinking Lover An object within an object of the same type the novel within a novel, the film within a film is rarely considered out of its context. Its...
 
 
 
 
 
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Short Films & Their Current Presence at the Academy Awards

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2007-12-05 13:32:00 by RC in Strange Culture
...short film category is my least favorite category at the academy awards I know that I am missing some history in understanding this award's importance. Walt Disney has the record for the most academy award wins with 22...most of those wins and handful of additional nominations come from short films, some of which although older I can name...
 
 
 
 
 
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REVIEW: 2008 Hugo Award Short Fiction Nominees

2008-05-19 00:40:55 by John in SF Signal
 
...short fiction nominees for a few years now. (See: Reviews of Hugo Award short fiction nominees for 2006 and 2007 ; and reviews of Nebula Award short fiction nominees for and 2005 , 2006 , and 2007 .) The recent trend of making award-nominated short fiction available for free online reading makes it easy. In most cases, that is. I have little...
 
 
 
 
 
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Short-Film Week: A Short Film About Failure

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2007-12-05 17:18:39 by Editor in Culture Snob
...short-form What's that Yes, I'm aware that Contact isn't exactly short , but the Screen Actors Guild defines a feature film as a movie of 80 minutes or longer, and Contact 's 53-minute running Pardon me Yes, I know that Contact was 150 minutes long when it played in movie theaters. I'm not talking about that movie. It was terrible and...
 
 
 
 
 
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Announcing the "Short-Film Week" Blog-a-thon: December 2-8, 2007

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2007-11-16 08:28:53 by Editor in Culture Snob
...Short Film Day," slated for December 4 at Ed Howard's Only the Cinema , my heart sank I'd been mulling a short-film blog-a-thon for months, but was hesitant to set a date because of my experience with the Misunderstood Blog-a-thon ; these things are a lot more work than I'd imagined So Ed beat me to it But then my barnacle/parasite/moocher...