...to the ninth issue of Danse Macabre, your online destination for coloratura letters, thought-provoking essays, fun photography, and little-known portals to worthy sites across the web. We’re also Nevada’s first online literary magazine, whether the 'literatti' of Southern Nevada take notice or not. Our hope is to help expand the literary matrix between the composer and the electronic media you’re enjoying now. Whether unpublished, still in school, retired, professional, or acclaimed, we welcome ink energy from across the spectrum. As for themes, motifs, or subject matter, look no further than our title – Danse Macabre – or our premiere inspiration (Camille Saint-Saens’ tone poem of the same name) for all you need to know about what gets our attention. In this issue, we present AFI's much-ballyhooed Top 100 Greatest Films list (as well as our collective riposte to this), a thoughtful look at the definitional aspects of cinema noir by Southern California essayist & sonneteer, RDM Cerello; thoughts on Britain's Hammer Films as well as poetry by myself; and a timely review parody from Jim Earp (with additional critical dialogue from Joyce Corbett of the Ethnic Textile Council, Columbia College's Arlene Greene, and UNLV's own popular culture matriarch, Felicia Florine Campbell).There are a lot of literary sites out here in the web (always look in our Archive for Links to sites we know you’ll enjoy visiting), some quite sophisticated, others, well, a little rudimentary. And don’t let’s forget all the many print journals churned out by our esteemed English departments (even though most of them are as provincial and, um, forgettable as their sponsoring programs are six-of-one, half-a-dozen-of-the-other in the academic millscape). At Danse Macabre, the proof’s in the pudding. We’re proud of our ongoing cast of contributing spirits, the scope of our milieu, and the bottom-line literary quality of our output. We’re one hundred percent committed to preserving, representing, and expanding the online landscape of letters, of visuals and voices, and the coloratura in all. And we’re always open to your thoughts, and ink energy, too. In these decidedly interesting times, you never know where the next cool piece of writing might come from…Adam Henry Carriere, Publisher,Danse Macabre
The Obligatory Trial Lawyer Preservation Statement
DANSE MACABREis edited, produced, and published online by Adam Henry Carriere - Copyright (c.) 2007. All rights reserved. Attributed works copyrighted by individual authors or in the public domain. Contributors retain all publication and serial rights. Viewpoints expressed by contributors, in quotations used, or suggested by displayed graphics may not necessarily reflect the opinions of this online journal. Images appearing in this journal are either in the public domain or the copyright of individuals who produced the image in question. It is believed that the non-profit use of scaled-down, low-resolution images taken from references throughout the world wide web which provide critical visual analysis to writings posted on this site qualifies as fair use under United States copyright law. Any other uses of these images may be copyright infringement.
NOTICE: Empowered by Presidential Executive Orders, the National Security Agency may read this journal and/or all receiving pc units without warning, warrant, or notice. NSA may do this without judicial or legislative oversight. The President of the United States no longer (as of 11 July 2006) claims A) the right (hereforth known as Executive Privilege) to designate the sender or reader as an 'Enemy Combatant'; B) the right to detain and/or imprison him/her indefinitely without access to legal counsel, family, or friend; and C) the right to 'render' such persons to an undesignated foreign government for an undetermined period. USC revised code, 11 July 2006. Currently under Congressional investigation (see: Bill of Rights; 1st, 4th, & 14th Amendments, Federalist Papers - all); expected date of repeal - 20 January 2009.
Danse Macabre 9
(tm)Jul / Aug 2007Volume Two, Number FivebyAdam Henry Carriere. Copyright (c.) 2007.All Rights Reserved.