The films of John Waters /

"The first collected volume of work on cult film director and icon John Waters, which offers a comprehensive study of his work as an important filmmaker and cultural force. Includes chapters covering important themes in Waters's work, stylistic tendencies, his relationship to the art world...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Moore, Michelle E. (Editor), Brems, Brian (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2025]
Series:Refocus.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Meeting John Waters / Michelle E. Moore
  • Part I Authorial Identity, Aesthetics, and Style
  • 1. Multiple Melodramas: Melodramatic Influences and Their Uses in the Cinema of John Waters / Jamie Hook
  • 2. John Waters in the 1980s: Publication, Performance, and the Redefinition of Authorial Identity / Matt Connolly
  • 3. The Bloodless 1990s: From Serial Mom to Wes Craven's Scream / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns and Canela Ailen Rodriguez Fontao
  • 4. Artsy Fartsy: Pecker and the Guilty Pleasures of John Waters' "Bad" Art Habits / Kristen Galvin
  • 5. "FullGraceracr": John Waters as Auteur with the Semiautobiographical Film Peter / John P. Bray
  • 6. "Technique Is Failed Style": John Waters, Style and Cecil B Demented / Brian Brems
  • 7. Little Movies: John Waters and the Visual Arts / Nicholas Morgan
  • PartCollaborationtion, Subversion, and Queering the Family
  • 8. Once Upon a Time in Dreamland: 2015 Recollections and Reflections / Chris Holmlund
  • 9. Family Values: Charles Manson and John Waters' Cult Cinema / Kate J,. Russell
  • 10. Queer Moms, Trash Aesthetics, and Suburban Filth: The Portrayal of Maternal Abject in John Waters' Cinema / Sony Jalarajan Raj and Aditjh K. Suresh
  • 11. Fame! Fortune! Glamour!: John Waters Remembers Midcentury TV / Hollis Griffin
  • 12. An Audience with John Waters / Jane Giles
  • Part III Interviews
  • 13. Interview with John Waters Conducted by Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems at His Home in Baltimore, November 2 2023