THE FALL OF ‘55
Friends of the Documentary 6/24
Twin Falls Pride, Journal, Twitter
Dear Friends of the Documentary,
It’s nice to be speaking with you again with more news of our film, THE FALL OF ‘55.
TWIN FALLS PREMIERE
I’m very pleased to tell you about the film’s Magic Valley premiere — TOMORROW NIGHT. It will show at the College of Southern Idaho as part of their first Pride week. This free community showing is sponsored by Southern Idaho GLBT Community Center and Alliance at College of Southern Idaho. It starts at 7 p.m. at the CSI Aspen Building, tomorrow, Thursday 6/25.
Please plan to arrive early, especially if you’re able to drive from out of town. I’ll be doing a Q&A session with the audience after the film
Thank you, also, to the good folks at KLIX Radio. This past Monday, they devoted 20 minutes of the “Top Story” morning show to talking about the events of 1955 and the Twin Falls showing of the film.
HOME VIDEO
Thank you for your patience during the past few years while you’ve waited for the home video DVD of THE FALL OF ‘55. The wait is almost over. I will be announcing the details of our DVD release in the very near future.
JOURNAL MENTION
THE FALL OF ‘55 was mentioned in a recent edition of the Journal of Historical Sociology, an academic journal read by read by historians, anthropologists, geographers and sociologists. Dr. Jen Schneider from the Colorado School of Mines wrote an article called Queer Wordplay: Language and Laughter in the “Boys of Boise” Morals Panic. The 22-page article explores how the use of language may have a factor in the furor surrounding these cases, and I’m quoted throughout.
In the author’s words,
The article first analyzes the rhetoric of local newspaper editorials, arguing that they relied on familiar tropes of “purity” and “danger” to foment hysteria about deviant sexual behaviors, in effect manufacturing child victims that did not exist. Second, analysis of trial transcripts illustrates the ways in which this hysteria and hostility were connected to fears that homosexuality might be infectious, could be passed on to children and young men, and therefore pose a long-term, unmanageable threat to heteronormative forms of masculinity and the American family.
TWITTER
Are you on Twitter? You can now find me there @SethRandal or at twitter.com/SethRandal.
MYSPACE
Remember to add both me, and the film, to your list of MySpace Friends. You can find me at www.myspace.com/SethRandal and the film is at www.myspace.com/FALLof55
Thanks again for your support and interest in the film! Another update will be coming out very soon with details on new ways to see the documentary.
All my best,
Seth
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Seth Randal, Writer/Director/Producer
SethRandal@gmail.com
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