Maverick director and producer Roger Corman offers an account of his offbeat Hollywood career and his role as the successful purveyor of low-budget B movies
How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime
In this autobiography, Roger Corman, the independent Hollywood film maker, relates his experiences as the director and/or producer of low-budget movies such as 'Attack of the Crab Monsters', 'The Little Shop of Horrors', 'The Man with the X ...
A pioneer of independent cinema, Roger Corman is a fascinating study in contrasts.
This publication is a major evaluation of the 1970s American cinema, including cult film directors such as Bogdanovich Altman and Peckinpah.
Takes a look at a pioneering independent filmmaker who has produced more than 250 films on shoestring budgets (nearly all of them successful) and influenced a generation of filmmakers, including Quentin Tarantino and Martin Scorsese.
It’s loaded with behind-the-scenes stories: like setting his face on fire during the making of Phantasm, hearing Bruce Campbell’s most important question before agreeing to star in Bubba Ho-tep, and crafting a horror thriller into a ...
Laurel after Hardy After Oliver Hardy's death in 1957 at the age of sixty-five, his long-time partner Stan Laurel refused to perform publicly again. The British-born Laurel was far from reclusive.He lived in a small apartment in Santa ...
—From Reel Power: The Strugglefor Influence and Success in the New Hollywood by Mark Litwak W e now diverge momentarily from our quest for ideas themselves and explain what you're going to do with the ideas once you've found them.
This book takes a comprehensive look at over 40 sword and sorcery movies from the 1980s, from the towering titans to the bargain basement sleaze-fests, unearthing them from their tombs and dusting them off so that they may shine once more.
Collected here are many of the most honest and revealing interviews of his epic career, several of which have never been seen in print. Roger Corman: Interviews brings into focus a life committed to the entertaining art of motion pictures.