Russ Meyer versus Eric Stanton! + a question I once asked Tura Satana.... You be the Judge!

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Russ Meyer

1.  Both emerged from Burlesque culture 2.  Both were veterans of World War II 3.  Both were abandoned by their biologically fathers earlier in life 4.  Both had willful mothers that they admired 5.  Both idolized strong, powerfully-built, imposing women

Eric Stanton

6.  Both chose sexploitation early on as their medium of expression 7.  Both can be regarded as fetish artists! 8.  Both were essentially self-employed, self-reliant, self-distributing artists 9.  Both created their own unique, eccentric, private worlds 10. Both were outsiders, never renouncing their life-choice as artists

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Eric Stanton: freelance artist
"Striparama," above (early 1960s) 




Russ Meyer: freelance photographer, 1959
(model: Virginia Bell)

“According to frequent collaborator and longtime lover Kitten Natividad, Meyer's love of dominant women extended to his personal life, and he was almost always in a tumultuous relationship.” —McDonough, Jimmy, Big Bosoms and Square Jaws 2004.chap14-16

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Feeling No Pain, Eric Stanton, 1967

First Niter Book, FN 245

 

From Russ Meyer's
Common Law Cabin (1967)

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Eric Stanton, Exotique #17, 1957




Russ Meyer, Black Snake, 1973

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"Keeping Down The Jones" Eric Stanton, early '60s




Varla (Tura Santana) in Faster Pussycat! Kill!... Kill! (1965)

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Wicked & Depraved, Eric Stanton, 1965

First Niter Book, FN 110A

Faster Pussycat! Kill!... Kill! (1965), Russ Meyer

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Stantoons, Eric Stanton + Steve Ditko,
Originally published early 1960s




Tura Santana again, in Faster Pussycat! Kill!... Kill! (1965)


A Question I once asked Tura Satana:

RICHARD: Y'know, Eric Stanton was collected by Howard Hughes, Frank Sinatra, Elvis. Were you or Russ Meyer ever influenced by fetish artist Eric Stanton? The character of Varla from Faster Pussycat Kill! Kill! seems incredibly close to his ideal.   TURA: Since Russ is deceased, I can't ask him but to answer—I can't say whether Russ knew of him, but I had never heard of Mr. Stanton. I had a habit of always wearing black because it is one color that has always been favorable to me. As for the leather gloves, I started wearing those when I was around 12 yrs, old when I was the leader of an all girl vigilante gang. It kept me from messing up my hands when we would break up fights and stop guys from attacking other girls in the neighborhood like I had been. This way, I didn't scrape my knuckles or break of nails. RICHARD: Eric Stanton passed away in 1999, but did you ever meet him while he was alive? Any connection to him at all? TURA: No, I have never met Mr. Eric Stanton, that I know of. The clothes that I wore in FPKK were mine, the only thing that Russ bought was another pair of black jeans so that I would have a change of clothes after the fight scenes. I could have met Mr. Stanton when I was a dancer, but I could not swear to it. It is possible that he created his female character after seeing me somewhere?

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Permanent Obscurity:  Or A Cautionary Tale
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And Death

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Exploitation Film’s Great Contribution to Popular Culture: Showmanship!

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There’s no question about it: when it comes to exploitation — cinema and novels (most often regarded as “pulps”) — there’s often a huge disparity between what’s promised and the final product. Many would strongly argue that the true legacy of exploitation (and its two main sub-genres: horror and sexploitation) exists in the marketing: the lurid book covers and movie posters and trailers produced to advertise “projections” of a product that the makers only wished they produced. These book covers and movie posters and trailers are in fact exploitation’s true cultural contribution — and a fun, lively, and vastly entertaining one at that.
Are these artifacts — obvious by-products of a need to sell a dream or fantasy project — art? Of course, they are. In some strange way they’re all the more endearing because they emerge out of the dreamer’s starry-eyed wish to produce work of such heart-stopping greatness that, by their mere existence, they would catapult you out of the tedium of your daily lives. And that’s part of what I love most about exploitation — even for its let-down “real” product — its feverish, often  demented earnestness and desire to entertain and make you go “Holy Shit!”

There’s no question about it: Exploitation is about putting on “a show” … or, as it’s been often stated, more about selling “the sizzle” not the steak. And now this — COMING SOON TO THIS THEATER! THE GREATEST EXTRAVAGANZA EVER MADE!!!!

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I need to emphasize that PERMANENT OBSCURITY is not "erotica," although it has BDSM overtones (leaning toward so-called "femdom"). It's really a dark comedy about bohemia and the difficulty of relationships (female/male and female/female) and finally the big question for anyone in the arts (or in the tabloid media): sudden fame vs. permanent anonymity. The style of the novel is inspired by '60s over-the-top sexploition films like those of Russ Meyer (FASTER PUSSYCAT KILL KILL, BEYOND THE VALLEY OF THE DOLLS) and those Something Weird Videos, like A SWEET SICKNESS and BAD GIRLS GO TO HELL [so-called “cautionary tales”]) -- updated to the Bush era (circa 2006).

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana (as told to Richard Perez)
Written in the 3 parts:

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 1 - THE KINKY HOOK
Whereupon we are introduced to Dolores and Serena and their kinky shenanigans.

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 2 - STRANGE HUNGERS
Whereupon Dolores and Serena grapple with relationship/sexuality issues, life-threatening drug dealers, irreversible money woes. Culminating in a desperate attempt at making a so-called "femdom" film.

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: PART 3 - NO MAN'S LAND
Whereupon Dolores and Serena find themselves in a place not expected. Namely, hell.

PERMANENT OBSCURITY: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death by Dolores Santana (as told to Richard Perez)

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~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~: About the Author:

 

Initially published small literary magazines, Richard Perez has also written for The New York Times (a newspaper he doesn't read.) His first novel, The Losers' Club (aka: The Losers' Club: Complete Restored Edition) has three foreign translations to date: Korean, Turkish, Italian. PERMANENT OBSCURITY: or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography, and Death — his second novel — also reflects his infatuation with bohemia and willful nonconformists.

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