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urn:uuid:aa6c36bf-0d86-4768-8575-f4c630efdfa1 03 15 9781685711979 00 EB E107 10 01 01 The Getty Fiend 1 A01 Ken White <bold>Ken White</bold> is a poet and screenwriter. He co-wrote and co-produced the feature film <italic>Winter in the Blood,</italic> co-directed and co-wrote the short film <italic>Universal VIP,</italic> as well as directed and co-wrote the short film <italic>The Conservationist.</italic> He has written or co-written more than a dozen feature scripts, including <italic>Blight, The Wereman, The Sorrows,</italic> and <italic>Cullen’s Hound,</italic> as well as new scripts, T<italic>he Orpheum Circuit, The Jennet Device,</italic> and a television pilot, <italic>LIT,</italic> with James Meetze, and most recently the psychological horror feature <italic>Wed the Dark,</italic> which he directed. White is the author of three books of poetry: <italic>Eidolon, The Getty Fiend,</italic> and <italic>Middlemost Constantine.</italic> His work has appeared in <italic>The Boston Review, Columbia: A Journal of Literature and Art, Omniverse, Manor House Quarterly, Versal, Spork, Horsethief, EuropeNow, Poets.org,</italic> and <italic>BOMB Magazine,</italic> among others. White is an Assistant Professor of Screenwriting at the Writer’s Workshop at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. 2 A24 Michael du Plessis 01 eng 00 126 03 12 DCF 23 Fabulations 10 POE005010 23 werewolves 23 Bisclavret 10 POE023040 23 Getty Museum 23 Los Angeles 23 mash-up 23 medieval literature 23 post-medievalism 01 06 03 00 <italic>The Getty Fiend</italic>, a contemporary medieval melodrama set in Los Angeles’s Getty Museum, takes the reader on a tour filled with rock stars and warrior-kings, werewolves and archivists, sartorial Huns and libertine saints, all seen through the keenly dramatic flair of a collector’s eye. A cinematic and labyrinthine take on pulp horror, Ken White’s screenplay-in-verse is a monster mash-up of forms and languages, facades and carnal catastrophes, archaic languages and misplaced rhetorics — a campy, fantastical gender-bending transformation into the inadvertently divine.This title is a second edition, released as part of punctum’s <ext-link xlink:href="https://punctumbooks.pubpub.org/pub/punctum-introduces-special-collections-les-figues/">Special Collections</ext-link> project. Les Figues 01 punctum books 04 01 20240129 02 WORLD 06 15 9781685711962 06 15 9781685711979 WORLD 09 punctum books 20 01