John Fraser
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John Fraser (b. Finchley, London, 1928 is an English writer and author of Violence in the Arts, America and the Patterns of Chivalry, and The Name of Action; Selected Essays, all published by Cambridge University Press. He maintains a website Jottings which is also dedicated to his wife who passed away Carol Hoorn Fraser.
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On Midi- Minuit Fantastique
- When we were in Paris a week or two later, I bought Freddy Buache’s enthusiastic pamphlet on Franju, which not only made me want to see all his other movies but put me onto the French movie journal Positif, published by Eric Losfeld’s Surrealist-oriented Librairie Le Terrain Vague, which in turn put me onto Midi Minuit Fantastique, also published by Losfeld and devoted entirely to horror and fantasy. It was in part the intellectual challenge of those journals, and of books like Ado Kyrou’s Le Surréalisme au cinéma and Georges de Coulteray’s Le Sadisme au Cinéma—Losfeld’s press again—that made me write during our second summer in Provence, 1966, a long essay on violence in the arts that I subsequently expanded into a book of that name.
- If C. had dismissed Les Yeux sans Visage as gratuitously repulsive, my interest in Franju would most probably have ended there. In those days, Franju and Positif and Midi-Minuit Fantastique were simply absent from “serious” English-language film criticism. The new French cinema that mattered there was that of Truffaut, Godard, Chabrol, Rivette, and the only French movie journal worth talking about and learning from was Cahiers du Cinéma.
--John Fraser , http://www.jottings.ca/carol/movies.html [Aug 2004]
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