I'm probably beating a dead horse, but here's Alicia's synopsis from earlier .. this week?
> Just a reminder, > We'll be meeting next Tuesday, June 2nd, at 7pm at the Pittsford > Barnes and Noble to discuss Horror and Weird Fiction: Differences > Between Print and Screen. I probably shouldn't have expanded on it, but I think we've come around to something close to what she intended. :-) On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:21 PM, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: > I actually just received some clarification from Alicia: the topic was to > be a discussion of books (well, written works, but let's say books for > simplicity) and movies addressing various aspects of movies based on books > and those not based on books. Would successful movies based on books have > been successful if there hadn't been the initial book? Would successful > movies not based on books have been as successful if there _had_ been a > book? That sort of thing. > > The horror and weird fiction mention I added was more to indicate the types > of movies included. If there's enough weird fiction out there, we could > certainly do a meeting focused on it. > > > On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:07 PM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]> wrote: > >> I thought the meeting was going to be about weird fiction. The whole >> film-adaptation thing I completely missed in previous discussions, I guess, >> because I don't remember knowing about it before I saw the update today. >> Combining the two seems to me to get pretty obscure. I'm sorry if this was >> discussed previously; to me right now it seems that we should do one or the >> other, or have a discussion tightly-framed around specific examples. >> >> >> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 2:02 PM, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: >> >>> I don't know what you're getting at. You want a whole meeting devoted to >>> "weird fiction," which I am told is considered a separate sub-genre of >>> speclit/fic? >>> >>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:57 PM, Eric Scoles <[email protected]>wrote: >>> >>>> >>>> Was just 'weird fiction' deemed to obscure to be interesting? >>>> >>>> >>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Here's another one: >>>>> <http://als.lib.wi.us/bookmovies.html> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:46 PM, Dave Henn <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> >>>>>> Here is a helpful list of books made into movies: >>>>>> <http://www.mcpl.lib.mo.us/readers/movies/> >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>> On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Dave Henn <[email protected]>wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> [image: Google Calendar] <http://www.google.com/calendar/> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Details for the following event have changed: >>>>>>> June R-SPEC Meeting - How different are movies from the books on >>>>>>> which they're based? >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Tue Jun 2 7pm – 9pm >>>>>>> (Timezone: Eastern Time) >>>>>>> Pittsford Barnes & Noble >>>>>>> (map<http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Pittsford+Barnes+%26+Noble&hl=en> >>>>>>> ) >>>>>>> Calendar: R-SPEC: The Rochester Speculative Literature Association >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Owner/Creator: >>>>>>> [email protected]<[email protected]?subject=re%3a%20june%20r-spec%20meeting%20-%20how%20different%20are%20movies%20from%20the%20books%20on%20which%20they%27re%20based%3f> >>>>>>> Other attendees: >>>>>>> [email protected]<[email protected]?subject=re%3a%20june%20r-spec%20meeting%20-%20how%20different%20are%20movies%20from%20the%20books%20on%20which%20they%27re%20based%3f> >>>>>>> Mail creator & >>>>>>> attendees<[email protected],[email protected]?subject=re%3a%20june%20r-spec%20meeting%20-%20how%20different%20are%20movies%20from%20the%20books%20on%20which%20they%27re%20based%3f> >>>>>>> >>>>>>> Our next R-SPEC meeting is Tuesday, June 2, at 7pm, at the Pittsford >>>>>>> Barnes and Noble. 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