John McCarty:  

John's schools include Columbia High School. He later attended Boston University College of Communication (Broadcasting & Film). He works(ed) at Self-employed. Books John likes include An Adventure Shared By Desperate Men. Movies he likes include The Wild Bunch, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre, The Searchers. TV shows he likes include Playhouse 90, Turner Classic Movies: TCM. More about John:"John McCarty is a full time author and filmmaker. His book "Bullets Over Hollywood: The American Gangster Picture from the Silents to 'The Sopranos'" (Da Capo Press, 2004), was produced as a major documentary by Hugh M. Hefner’s Alta Loma Entertainment, for the Starz/Encore cable network; it aired in 2005 and 2006 and has been released on DVD by Image-Entertainment. Additionally, he is the co-producer, co-writer, and co-director of "The Fearmakers: Masters of Screen Suspense and Terror," a 10-episode documentary series of profiles of some of the world’s most influential makers of classic suspense and terror films, among them Tod Browning, Jack Arnold, Terence Fisher, Roman Polanski, Roger Corman, and Tobe Hooper. The series is based on his 1994 book of the same title published by St. Martin’s Press. It was released on DVD by Elite Entertainment, Inc. in May 2007. His most recent film is “Confinement” (2010), a modern re-working of the classic weird tale “The Yellow Wallpaper.” The author of more than 20 non-fiction books of his own on film and entertainment subjects, John has appeared in conjunction with his work on such national media as the Wall St. Journal, the Sundance Film Festival’s online â...Expand for more