Synopses & Reviews
Russ Meyer is the breast-fixated filmmaker who started as a nude pin-up photographer and progressed through his own startling brand of B-cinema to direct probably the most bizarre film ever funded by a major Hollywood -studio-
Beyond the Valley of the Dolls.
Meyer's 1960s films-including Mudhoney, Motorpsycho!and the legendary Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!-are now venerated as modern classics, and Lips Hips Tits Powerexamines Meyer's entire cinematic oeuvre in -detail, affording it the serious analysis it undeniably warrants.
Featuring famous girls from Meyer's repertory company such as Tura Satana, Kitten Natividad, Uschi Digard, Haji and Erica Gavin, Lips Hips Tits Poweroffers a visual feast of buxotic female flesh to offset its critical commentary, resulting in a book which operates on two-equally stimulating-levels.
Synopsis
Russ Meyer is the breast-fixated filmmaker who started as a nude pin-up photographer and progressed through his own startling brand of B-cinema to direct probably the most bizarre film ever funded by a major Hollywood -studio -- "Beyond the Valley of the Dolls."
Meyer's 1960s films -- including "Mudhoney, Motorpsycho!" and the legendary "Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!" -- are now venerated as modern classics, and "Lips Hips Tits Power" examines Meyer's entire cinematic oeuvre in -detail, affording it the serious analysis it undeniably warrants.
Featuring famous girls from Meyer's repertory company such as Tura Satana, Kitten Natividad, Uschi Digard, Haji and Erica Gavin, "Lips Hips Tits Power" offers a visual feast of buxotic female flesh to offset its critical commentary, resulting in a book which operates on two -- equally stimulating -- levels.
About the Author
Doyle Greene is a film scholar at the University of Iowa.