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AKA Damon Arvid. Under-the-radar writer, musician. Let's keep it that way. The cloud novels and other highlights are being collected at DamonArvid.com. To access all the music and Avocado Sun, click the big black box below.

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 Movies & Film As literary influences

8/24/2015

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Are there TV series or films that have influenced your writing? I posed this question on Facebook in a BooksGoSocial post: 

Was just thinking how I watched exactly one television series (True Detective) last year while winnowing my literary craft. During the early years of writing Arisugawa Park, I was more in tune with visual media trends & incorporated a number of film and TV influences.  One was the unique pacing and editing techniques found in Japanese terubi dramas (Trick and others I do not remember the names of). 

Another influence was Lost. In particular, the way in which apparently unconnected storylines were connected in quick-paced succession (this was altered in later drafts to an extent, at the urging of perplexed readers). There were also faint childhood memories of the Shogun TV series.* Within these more-or-less traceable influences, I had a basic impression of the thriller trope engrained in my DNA - recollections of dozens of guilty pleasures, from James Bond to The Usual Suspects. 

On the perceptual level, I had a particular affinity for the B&W film noir/bebop sensibility. (Recollection of a cinematic scene in Kerouac's Visions of Cody, describing 3am Times Square + laying on cool tatami listening to Miles Davis' Ascenseur Pour L'échafaud after a blurry night in Roppongi gave the book direct impetus. 

My core question is whether television and movies (in particular HBO-type extended series) have evolved to a point where they acceptable as key influences on literary writers.

* Never read the James Clavell novel - I finally got around to its cousin Noble House (picked up at a guesthouse or hostel I'm sure) a couple years ago and was underwhelmed.
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