In 1970, Roger Corman formed his own production company, New World Pictures, through which he continued his policy, already begun at A.I.P., of encouraging and developing young talent. In the school of Corman, art meets economics in the open, not only in confrontation but in creative tension. The school of Corman is a school of low-budget films characterized by an innovative economy of expression; of progressive thematics in reactionary genres; of subversive humor in an exploitation package. It's not offered up as “great art,” but as high-energy filmmaking creating, incidentally, more than a little food for thought out of a starvation budget.
