Anne Billson

Breast Man: A Conversation with Russ Meyer (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In 1959, Russ Meyer revolutionized the American sex film industry with The Immoral Mr. Teas, which introduced humor and storytelling into a genre that had hitherto been lacking in them. This and the films that followed earned him the nickname "King of the Nudies", and established the recurring motif of enormous bosoms which would henceforth characterize his work. He went on to revolutionize the industry again with a series of black and white gothic melodramas inspired by Italian neo-realism, and then made a further breakthrough in 1968 with Vixen!, one of the first sex films to cross over to mainstream audiences and appeal to dating couples. Vixen!'s astonishing profitability brought Meyer to the attention of 20th Century Fox, who hired him to direct his first Hollywood studio film, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, from a screenplay written by film critic Roger Ebert. Reviewers were baffled by the delirious mixture of sex, satire and exploitation, but the movie quickly became a cult success on the midnight movie circuit, and, along with Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, secured its director's reputation as an independent film-maker with a unique personal vision. Meyer's films can be read as parodies of cinema archetypes and melodramatic conventions, as assaults on good taste, pin-ups come to life, an assemblage of Pop Art imagery and an ofttimes glorious celebration of American manhood's onanistic fantasies. In 1992, the British writer and film critic Anne Billson spent a day in his company; this, the transcript of their conversation, offers a glimpse into the mind of an extraordinary film-maker and true American auteur.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Anne Billson
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781311666048
• Artikelnr.: 75897910

Autorenporträt

Anne Billson is a film critic, novelist, photographer, screenwriter, film festival programmer, style icon, wicked spinster, evil feminist, and international cat-sitter. She has lived in London, Cambridge, Tokyo, Paris and Croydon, and now lives in Antwerp. She likes frites, beer and chocolate.

Her books include horror novels Suckers, Stiff Lips, The Ex, The Coming Thing and The Half Man; Blood Pearl, Volume 1 of The Camillography; monographs on the films The Thing and Let the Right One In; Breast Man: A Conversation with Russ Meyer; Billson Film Database, a collection of more than 4000 film reviews; and Cats on Film, the definitive work of feline film scholarship.

In 1993 she was named by Granta as one of their Best Young British Novelists. In 2012 she wrote a segment for the portmanteau play The Halloween Sessions, performed in London's West End. In 2015 she was named by the British Film Institute as one of 25 Female Film Critics Worth Celebrating.