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    In the Best Possible Tastes: Rhetoric and Taste in AlP’s Promotion of Roger Corman’s Poe Cycle

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    One day over lunch in 1960, American International Pictures (AIP) executives Samuel Z. Arkoff and James Nicholson asked Roger Corman, their in-house director, to make two black-and-white horror films at $100,000 each. Corman pitched a better idea, a film based upon Edgar Allan Poe’s short story “The Fall of the House of Usher.” Corman rationalized that Poe “has a built in following with [kids]…. He’s read in every high school. Plus one quality film in colour is better than two cheap films in black and white” (qtd. in McGee 249). In his pitch, Corman identified the dual appeal of Edgar Allan Poe as a part of the American literary canon but also a fan favorite. He proposed a strategy for AIP to reposition the studio upmarket. Previously, AIP was regarded as an exploitative production company, something that Arkoff and Nicolson seemed to revel in. Arkoff, for instance, stated that all the company was interested in were “[t]its and ass. Sex and Violence…. Anything else is arty farty” (qtd. in McGee 137). Corman was a director that Arkoff and Nicholson employed for his fast turnover, miniscule budgets, and reliability as much as his competence. Up to this point he produced black-and-white films in teen-targeted genres such as horror, science fiction, and juvenile delinquency (JD). The Fall of the House of Usher (1960) and the Poe cycle “is one of the high points in the commodification of Poe, imposing a theatrically gothic aspect to his writings … and making him a favorite to a wide range of audiences” (Neimeyer 218). It was shot in full color and Cinemascope for $270,000, most of which was paid to the star, Vincent Price. Price, Poe, Corman, and AIP were to be inextricably connected for four years and seven films in the Poe cycle.

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