Virtual Sky Room Talk – Live Zoom Lecture, Discussion and
Q&A!
The Wild, The Sadists and The Outsiders – Spaghetti Westerns in
American Culture
Wednesday,
August 11th at 7:00 PM ET – Zoom Invitation Link provided in Email Order
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Public
$7 | Members $5
The Wild, The Sadists and The Outsiders – Spaghetti Westerns in
American Culture: Explore how Italian filmmakers took an
American genre of film-making and completely reshaped it giving the world a
very different view of the old west. The
Good, The Bad and the Ugly blurred the definition of good and evil. We
will cover the work of Sergio Leone as well as explore the countless
spin-offs as done by the Spanish, Germans, Mexicans and others. A delicious
selection of film clips is used to give examples of why the European view of
the old West continues to endure as a cult phenomenon. Get out your six shooter
and join us.
Keith Crocker is a Long
Island, NY based filmmaker and film historian. He attended the New York
Institute of Technology from 1984 through 1988, where he majored in film and TV
production. Keith’s first job in cinema was making short Super 8mm films used
for aversion therapy in phobia clinics. In 1993, Keith made his first feature
film, which was based on Edgar Allan Poe’s Murders in
the Rue Morgue. During this time, he also worked as a motion
picture projectionist and started a video on demand company. 30 years later,
that business is still running. From 1987 through 2005, Keith was editor of the
fanzine The Journal,
which published 25 issues before going into hiatus. In 2008, Keith released Blitzkreig, which
was a WWII based film. During this time, he was also the co-founder of Wildeye
Releasing. He left Wildeye in 2012. Keith has been teaching adult education at
Nassau Community College for the past 18 year has also been giving seminars on
motion pictures to public libraries and community centers for the past 25
years. He lives on Long Island with his wife/muse Christina Crocker. He has two
screenplays written for upcoming production.
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