Russ Meyer

Interviews

Ed Symkus (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

277 Seiten

2025
University Press of Mississippi (Verlag)
9781496855862 (ISBN)

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Russ Meyer: Interviews offers a detailed look into the mind, life, and successful career of the maverick filmmaker Russ Meyer. Known for his audacious visual style and boundary-pushing content, Meyer (1922–2004) carved out a unique niche in the film industry with his provocative and often controversial works, including Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!; Beyond the Valley of the Dolls; and Vixen! In this volume, Meyer talks over the course of eighteen newspaper and magazine interviews—conducted between the late 1960s and early 1990s—about assignments in still- and motion-picture combat photography during World War II, learning all aspects of the filmmaking craft when he was shooting industrial films after the war, later stumbling into the business of photographing pin-up girls for magazines, and how that segued into his first forays in what would become the sexploitation movie market.

Working with small budgets and small crews, Meyer became a skilled director and pitchman for his own work, hitting the road with reels of film in his car, going from town to town, getting them shown in small moviehouses, building an audience, making big profits, then using them to make his next film. The films were expertly photographed, inventively edited, and featured intriguing (and violent, carnal, and funny) storylines, and ticket sales numbers eventually caught the eyes of the Hollywood studio system, for which Meyer briefly worked, before once again striking out on his own with ever-more violent, sexual, and cartoonish features. Meyer made fortunes, he lost fortunes, then he made them again, and he was always game for getting involved in controversy, which was easy due to the content of his films. After his final theatrical feature—Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens—in 1979, Meyer reinvented himself as an entrepreneur by making his films available on the burgeoning home video market, leaving him a celebrated and very wealthy man.

Ed Symkus is a freelance feature writer at the Boston Globe and the Washington Post, specializing in film and music. He also reviews films for the online publication The Arts Fuse and on WCAP 980 AM. He is coauthor of Wrestle Radio, USA: Grapplers Speak.

Introduction
Chronology
Filmography
King Leer: Top "Nudie" Filmmaker Russ Meyer Scrambles to Outshock Big Studios
Steven M. Lovelady / 1968
The King of the Nudie Movies Is Going Respectable
Marci McDonald / 1971
Sex, Violence and Drugs—All in Good Fun!
Stan Berkowitz / 1972
Pensées of a Porno Prince
Scott Eyman / 1976
Russ Meyer Thinks Big
R. Allen Leider / 1976
Russ Meyer
Nat Segaloff / 1979
Porn King: Russ Meyer Still Upfront with Films and "Fillies"
Karin Winegar / 1979
Russ Meyer
Craig Reid / 1981
The Breast of Russ Meyer
Anton Rush / 1983
Tit for Tat
Tom Teicholz / 1986
Russ Meyer
Jim Morton / 1986
Some of My Brest Kept Secrets
Paul Sherman / 1987
Mondo Russo
Dale Ashmun / 1988
Russ Meyer
David K. Frasier / 1990
Russ Meyer: Between the Valleys of My Ultravixens
Arv Miller / 1990
Russ Meyer: The World’s Breast Director
Jim Goad / 1991
Russ Meyer—Hellcats for a Modern World
Beth Accomando / 1995
Russ Meyer
Ed Symkus / 1995
Additional Resources
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	24.01.2025
Reihe/Serie	Conversations with Filmmakers Series
Verlagsort	Jackson
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
ISBN-13	9781496855862 / 9781496855862
Zustand	Neuware