Tony Williams is a professor of cinema studies at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.

Now in a revised edition, this book is the only published study devoted to Larry Cohen and his significance as a great American filmmaker. The first edition is long out of print and often sought after. This edition covers all the director's films, television work and screenplays, and contains an updated interview with the director as well as interviews with his colleagues Janelle Webb Cohen, Michael Moriarty and James Dixon. The filmography and bibliography are also updated.

Table of Contents


Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part One: A Career Study

1.¿What Makes Cohen Unique

2.¿Early Work in New York Television

3.¿Early Work in Hollywood Television

4.¿Screenplays and Teleplays of the 1970s

5.¿First Films as Director, Producer, and Writer

6.¿Directorial Achievements in the 1970s

7.¿Social Comedy Brings in the 1980s

8.¿New York Independent Productions

9.¿Parody and Satire

10.¿Screenplays of the 1980s and 1990s

11.¿Theatrical Work

12.¿Film and Television Work in the 1990s-and Beyond

Part Two: Interviews with and About Cohen

13.¿Cohen on Cohen

14.¿Janelle Webb Cohen on Cohen

15.¿Michael Moriarty on Cohen

16.¿James Dixon on Cohen

17.¿Cohen on Guerrilla Filmmaking

Appendix A.¿The Television and Film Credits of Larry Cohen

Appendix B.¿The Theatrical Work of Larry Cohen

Appendix C.¿The Strange Case of "Coronet Blue"

Chapter Notes

Selected Bibliography

Index