Research Catalog

Title

Roger Corman : metaphysics on a shoestring / by Alain Silver and James Ursini.

Author

Silver, Alain, 1947-

Publication

Los Angeles : Silman-James Press, c2006.

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Additional Authors

Ursini, James

Description

vii, 323 p. : ill.; 26 cm.

Summary

"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 he wanted to make them - true to his own vision and free from the meddling of Hollywood's power brokers." "Based on extensive research and interviews with Corman, the authors cover in detail each Corman-directed film - from such two-day wonders as Little Shop 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."--Jacket.

Subject

Corman, Roger, 1926-

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 320-323).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The Director: Films directed by Roger Corman: Five Guns West, Apache Woman, Day the World Ended, Swamp Women, The Oklahoma Woman, the Gunslinger, It Conquered the World, Not of this Earth, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Teenage Doll, Rock All Night, The Undead, She Gods of Shark Reef, Naked Paradise, Sorority Girl, Carnival Rock, War of the Satellites, the Saga of the Viking Women and their Voyage to the Waters of the Great Sea Serpent, Teenage Caveman, Machine Gun Kelly, I, Mobster, A Basket of Blood, The Wasp Woman, Ski Troop Attack, House of Usher, The Little Shop of Horrors, The Last Woman on Earth, Creature from the Haunted Sea, Atlas, The Pit and the Pendulum, The Intruder, The Premature Burial, Tales, of Terror, The Tower of London, the Young Racer, the Raven, The Terror, ʺXʺ: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes, The Haunted Palace, The Secret Invasion, The Masque of the Red Death, The tomb of Ligeia, The Wild Angels, the St. Valentineʼs Day Massacre, The Trip, Target: Harry, Bloody Mama, Gas-s-s-s!, Von Richthofen and Brown, Frankenstein Unbound -- Films co-produced by Roger Corman: The Beast with a Million Eyes, A Time for Killing, The Wild Racers, De Sade, Deathsport -- The Producer and writer: films on which Roger Corman was producer, executive producer or writer only -- Corman Onscreen: Appearances as an actor in films directed by others.

ISBN

1879505428 (alk. paper)

LCCN

• ^^2002017034
• 9781879505421

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library