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Stephanie Rothman (born November 9, 1936, in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter, known for her low-budget independent exploitation films made in the 1960s and 1970s, especially The Student Nurses (1970) and Terminal Island (1974).
Writer/director Stephanie Rothman was one of the few female filmmakers who specialized in low-budget drive-in exploitation fare in the '60s and '70s. Her movies are distinguished by gutsy, strong-willed and sympathetic women main characters and a radical libertarian feminist point of view.
- Writer, Director, Producer
- November 9, 1936
- Stephanie Rothman
Mar 7, 2016 · When Rothman unleashed the film in 1970, under the aegis of B-movie king Roger Corman ‘s New World Pictures, she was a lone woman in a club of male directors crafting low-budget, drive-in fare when what was produced outside the mainstream was designed for lurid titillation.
Writer/director Stephanie Rothman was one of the few female filmmakers who specialized in low-budget drive-in exploitation fare in the '60s and '70s. Her movies are distinguished by gutsy, strong-willed and sympathetic women main characters and a radical libertarian feminist point of view.
- November 9, 1936
Jul 23, 2022 · From the lush and seductive surrealism of The Velvet Vampire to the shockingly prescient plotlines of The Student Nurses and Terminal Island, the diverse output of Stephanie Rothman’s career...
- Benjamin Crabtree
Nov 19, 2021 · The woman whose sexy, violent exploitation films are still overlooked. Roger Corman’s go-to director Stephanie Rothman gets her due in the new book Warped & Faded. By Heidi Honeycutt Nov 18,...
Now eighty-six, Stephanie Rothman, who studied filmmaking at USC in the early ’60s and was the first woman to receive the Directors Guild of America fellowship, began working in 1964 as an assistant to Corman, then a macher with American International Pictures.
