Out Sept. 10, 2013
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is an
outrageously rollicking account of the life and career of Roger
Corman—one of the most prolific and successful independent producers,
directors, and writers of all time, and self-proclaimed king of the B
movie. As told by Corman himself and graduates of “The Corman Film
School,” including Peter Bogdanovich, James Cameron, Francis Ford
Coppola, Robert De Niro, and Martin Scorsese, this comprehensive oral
history takes readers behind the scenes of more than six decades of
American cinema, as now-legendary directors and actors candidly unspool
recollections of working with Corman, continually one-upping one another
with tales of the years before their big breaks.
Crab Monsters is
supplemented with dozens of full-color reproductions of classic Corman
movie posters; behind-the-scenes photographs and ephemera (many taken
from Corman’s personal archive); and critical essays on Corman’s most
daring films—including The Intruder, Little Shop of Horrors, and The Big Doll House— that make the case for Corman as an artist like no other.
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