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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Edinburgh :
Edinburgh University Press,
[2025]
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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