Soylent Green - FLNWO #04
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This month on Film, Literature and the New World Order we talk to James Evan Pilato of MediaMonarchy.com about Soylent Green, the 1973 sci-fi movie based on the 1966 novel Make Room! Make Room! by Harry Harrison. We discuss the differences between the book and the movie, the eminent personage who wrote the introduction to the book, and how the story has been used to predictively program some of the favourite memes of the eugenics propagandists.
Next month: The Catcher in the Rye
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Suggestions for Further Reading:
Video: "Soylent Green" Trailer
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUslj86R2xo
"Soylent Green" on IMDB
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/
PDF: "Make Room! Make Room!" by Harry Harrison (w/ Paul Ehrlich's Introduction and Suggestions for Further Reading)
http://ur1.ca/ddytn
"Make Room! Make Room!" Review by Paul Tomlinson
http://www.iol.ie/~carrollm/hh/n07.htm
"The Population Bomb" by Paul Ehrlich
http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/760870.The_Population_Bomb
"Meals to Come: A History of the Future of Food" by Warren Belasco
http://books.google.com/books?id=7a5XPNRFt3IC&pg=PA51
R.I.P. Harry Harrison, creator of the Stainless Steel Rat, Bill the Galactic Hero, and Soylent Green
http://io9.com/5934884/rip-harry-harrison-creator-of-the-stainless-steel-rat-bill-the-galactic-hero-and-soylent-green
Stanley R. Greenberg, 74, Television Screenwriter
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/09/01/nyregion/stanley-r-greenberg-74-television-screenwriter.html
IMDB Boards: "is it really so bad,modern thought"
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070723/board/nest/169288584?ref_=tt_bd_2
Video: "Soylent Green" Opening Sequence
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlVczvB4FQk
Soylent Green: Soundtrack - Main Theme
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DlZD3003jk
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