You're not dead until you're forgotten : a memoir / John Dunning with Bill Brownstein.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dunning, John, 1927-2011, author.

Brownstein, Bill, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dunning, John, 1927-2011.

Dunning, John.

Cinépix inc.

Motion picture producers and directors--Canada--Biography.

Motion picture producers and directors.

Screenwriters--Canada--Biography.

Screenwriters.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (238 p.)

Place of Publication:

Montréal, Québec : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"Dunning was born into the movie business ... and ultimately became Canada's pre-eminent B-movie producer, with a knack for developing young talent ... Dunning ... recounts his rough-and-tumble upbringing in the Montreal suburb of Verdun in the 1930s, his modest start in the film industry behind the candy counter of his family's movie theatre, and later, his ventures into film distribution and production. In the 1960s Dunning, along with financial wizard André Link, founded Cinepix, which eventually merged into the Lionsgate Entertainment film colossus. Specializing in such exploitation genres as raucous comedy, horror films, and groundbreaking Québécois 'maple syrup porn', Cinepix churned out cult classics like Valérie ... and Meatballs ... Driven to succeed in the face of arbitrary censors, parochial Canadian critics, and controlling government funding agencies, Dunning and Link developed a formula for producing controversial, moneymaking movies, and helped launch the careers of luminaries-to-be, such as David Croenenberg, Ivan Reitman and Don Carmody"--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Front Matter

Contents

Introduction

Courage Means Accepting Our Fundamental Solitude and Stirring Oneself to Action in Spite of the Certainty of Death.

Adjusting to a Sick Society Does Not Make One Well.

Y.C.D.B.S.O.Y.A. You Can’t Do Business Sitting On Your Ass!

Emotional Reactions Against Pornography Tell More About the Complainant’s Own Sexual Inhibitions than About Pornography.

The Essence of Film is Showing People What They Want to See.

People Love Making Movies Because it is an Activity that Suspends All Thoughts of Death!

Sex is Indeed Imbued With the Death Instinct.

The Trick of Dread Movies is to Take Ordinary Events and Invest Them With the Unbeatable Combination of Must-See and Can’t-Bear-to-Look.

At the Studios, You’re Dealing With People Who Don’t Want to Make Any Movie That They Haven’t Already Seen Before.

Keep Breathing: You Never Know When Life Might be Worth Living Again.

I am Hurt, But I am Not Slain, I’ll Lay me Down and Bleed a While, And Then I’ll Rise and Fight Again.

Epilogue

André Link

David Cronenberg

Don Carmody

Ivan Reitman

Christian Larouche

Mike Paseornek

Jeff Sackman

Margot Wright

Last Words

Acknowledgments

Filmography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes filmography and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed August 20, 2014).

ISBN:

9780773596092

0773596097

9780773596085

0773596089

OCLC:

1239997786