Published by Vintage, part of Vintage Publishing
Format: Paperback
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Author:
Jimmy McDonough
Format: Paperback
EAN: 9780099464648
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EAN: 9780099464648
Published: 6 Jul 2006
Bringing his anecdote-and-action-packed biographical style to the ultimate renegade of popular culture, Jimmy McDonough offers a wild portrait of Russ Meyer, the director, writer, producer and commando movie-making force behind such sexploitation classics as Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! and Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Beginning in 1959, this former combat photographer put his personal sexual obsessions (mostly involving women with huge breasts) on screen, creating a body of work that has influenced a legion of rock bands, filmmakers and even the occasional feminist.
Rich with wicked observations and memories from Meyer's friends, lovers, leading ladies, fellow filmmakers and fans, Big Bosoms and Square Jaws tells the full story of Meyer's life and career: it is a story of greed, lust and the American way.
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A very funny, brave book about an artist who deserves to be remembered and enjoyed
- Guardian
McDonough polishes every wacky, wicked facet of Meyer as a redneck rough diamond
- The Times
Russ Meyer's vision was of a hyperactive world occupied by isolated, inadequate men in thrall to overendowed, voracious women. Jimmy McDonough's book is written in such wonderfully bad taste that he has remained true to that crazed vision
- Independent on Sunday
Incredibly revealing
- Playboy
McDonald never flinches from the uncomfortable truths
- Uncut
Scrupulously researched and studiously assembled... This is the full-blown works. Meyer would have been flattered indeed
- Film Review
Jimmy McDonough is the author of The Ghastly One: The Sex-Gore Netherworld of Filmmaker Andy Milligan and Shakey: Neil Young's Biography. As a journalist he has contributed to such publications as Variety, Film Comment, Mojo, Spin and Jugg. But he is perhaps best known for his intense, definitive Village Voice profiles of such artists as Jimmy Scott, Neil Young and Hubert Selby, Jr.
