Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses
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Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses by Chris Nashawaty
Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses is a revealing, outrageously rollicking, gorgeously designed book about the career and films of Roger Corman: one of the most prolific, successful and influential independent producers, directors and writers in the history of Hollywood, and self-proclaimed king of the “B” movie. As told by Corman himself and the famous figures who got their starts in show business with him, including Peter Bogdanovich, James Cameron, David Carradine, Francis Ford Coppola, Robert De Niro, Jonathan Demme, Peter Fonda, Dennis Hopper, Ron Howard, Jack Nicholson and Martin Scorsese, this comprehensive oral history takes readers behind the scenes of more than six decades of American film history, as now legendary directors and actors candidly unspool anecdotes as though reminiscing together at a Hollywood cocktail party—continually one upping each other and lovingly recalling the years before their big breaks. Crab Monsters is supplemented with dozens of full page, full colour reproductions of classic Corman movie posters; never before published, behind the scenes photographs and ephemera (many taken from Corman’s personal archive); and critical essays on Corman’s most daring and influential films—including Little Shop of Horrors, Death Race 2000, Piranha, A Bucket of Blood, and more—that make the case for Corman as an artist like no other.
Chris Nashawaty is a senior writer at Entertainment Weekly. During his seventeen years at the magazine, he has become one of America’s foremost movie writers. Nashawaty was a finalist for the Luce Award for his provocative 2007 profile of Wesley Snipes on the eve of the actor’s federal tax trial (an article that nearly got the writer subpoenaed in the case). He has written for Esquire, Sports Illustrated, and Fortune, and also reviews movies on NY1, New York’s 24 hour cable network.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781419706691 |
| ISBN 10 | 1419706691 |
| Title | Crab Monsters, Teenage Cavemen, and Candy Stripe Nurses |
| Author | Chris Nashawaty |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Abrams |
| Year published | 2013-09-10 |
| Number of pages | 272 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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