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ROGER CORMAN
| Metaphysics on a Shoestring
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| | Alain Silver and James Ursini, 332 pages, 8x10, 1-879505-42-8, $24.95 paper | Roger
Corman has created his own Hollywood: As a successful director,
producer, and low-budget movie mogul running his own studio, he has
made films as wanted to make them - true to his own vision and free
from the meddling of Hollywood's power brokers.
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All
things considered, Corman might be one of the most influential
flimmakers in the history of motion pictures. This accolade is bestowed
on him not just because of his success as a producer - although, as the
title of his autobiography boasts, he has made more than 100 pictures
and never lost a dime. He may be one of the most influential filmmakers
because, along the way to directing and producing more than 200 films,
he ran a de facto school for young filmmakers, the alumni of which have
garnered more money and awards than any other group in film history.
Among them are James Cameron, Francis Coppola, and Jonathan Demme.
Based on
extensive research and interviews with Corman, the authors cover in
detail each Corman-directed film - from such two - day wonders as Little Ship of Horrors to such studio pictures as St. Valentine's Day Massacre
- and trace this unique filmmaker's life and work from his humble
beginnings in post-World War II Hollywood to his current mythic status
as the Godfather of all independent moviemakers.
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| Alain Silver and James Ursini
have jointly authored and/or co-edited David Lean and His Films, What
Ever Happened to Robert Aldrich?, More Things Than Are Dreamt Of, The
Vampire Film and eight books on the film noir movements, including Film
Noir: An Encyclopedic Reference, Film Noir Style, Film Noir, L.A. Noir,
and four volumes of the Film Noir Reader series. Both authors have
lectured on film production at UCLA and other universitites and written
for such periodicals as Film Quarterly, Film Comment, DGA Magazine, and Cinefantastique.
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