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Article: Big Bosoms and Square Jaws: Russ Meyer, King of the Sex Film.(Book review)
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- December 22, 2005
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On the one hand Russ Meyer was the purest auteur in the history of American film. He not only wrote, directed, edited, and photographed the vast majority of his two dozen genre-defying movies, but he usually owned them, distributed them, designed the advertising campaign, did all his own publicity, and --beginning in the Eighties--sold every videocassette out of his house in the Hollywood Hills. On the other hand Meyer was the most limited director in history. As far as I know, he's the only filmmaker whose work is entirely subsumed under a single fetish. I speak, of course, of the female breast, for which Meyer had at least 5,000 synonyms, most of them invented by himself ...
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Article: Russ Meyer. (Sound and Vision).
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... ... witnessed the 80th birthday of Meyer, and an exhibition in ... dozen classic images from Meyer's enormous, and rarely ... The Life and Loves of Russ Meyer.) Not so surprisingly ... Playboy. The Venus rock and Meyers art signify cultural paradigm ...
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