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Meyer, Feminists and Monstrous Feminines: Fifty years of ‘Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill!’

Although this article doesn’t explicitly contain any significant spoilers, it is always advisable to watch a film before reading about it too deeply. In his own words, the intended audience for Russ Meyer’s films was “some guy…in the theatre with semen seeping out of his dick.” His work in the sexploitation subgenre is credited with …

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‘Star Wars’ Action Figures styled like Russ Meyer Characters

Patton Oswalt has commissioned a series of action figures that blends the world of Star Wars with the look of Russ Meyer movies, and the result is pretty awesome. The creator of the figures is Sillof, an inspiration for Oswalt’s character in Jason Reitman’s Young Adult, and the man also responsible for combining Star Wars …

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‘The Immoral Mr. Teas’ (Russ Meyer, 1959): The Birth of an Auteur and the Face of a New Genre

Teas not only marks the emergence of one of the most interesting and disputed “auteurs” of the American cinema, but also proved to be a crucial film in the emergence of more risqué adult cinema. Not only in terms of exploitation and pornographic cinema, but in paving the way for more lax rules for Hollywood, which was at this point, still stubbornly holding on to the production code.

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