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Rock 'n' Roll Monsters: The American International Story

By Bruce Hellenbeck

Rock 'n' Roll Monsters: The American International Story book

Rock 'n' Roll Monsters: The American International Story

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In the early 1950s, the traditional American film industry was facing a crisis due to one thing: television. Two men from totally different backgrounds pooled their talents and tapped into the burgeoning ‘teenage’ market, and American International Pictures was born. Over the next 25 years, ‘AIP’ would turn out genre films of every kind, from sci-fi and horror to ‘beach party’ and Blaxploitation. Some of its titles have since become legendary - I Was a Teenage Werewolf, Horrors of the Black Museum, The Wild Angels - but the company also produced prestige pictures like Wuthering Heights and box-office bonanzas such as Love at First Bite and The Amityville Horror. Rock ‘n’ Roll Monsters is the story of how AIP went from a cornball purveyor of drive-in double-features filled with monsters and mayhem to a major force in films whose ‘fast and furious’ business model was copied and eventually adopted by the Hollywood mainstream... Paperback, 298pp, fully illustrated throughout, 8 pages in colour!
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
280
Release Date:
2016-08-18
Publication Date:
2016-08-18
Publisher:
Hemlock Books Limited
Languages:
Published: English, Original: English
ISBN10:
0993398936
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