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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, and interviews reflecting on the impact of Waters's films on his collaborators and audience. Also features a new retrospective interview with Waters in which he reflects on his career and films.
Contents
List of Figures
Acknowledgements
Notes on Contributors
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. "Full of Grace": John Waters as Auteur with the Semiautobiographical Film Pecker
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
Part II. Collaboration, 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 Adith K. Suresh
11. Fame! Fortune! Glamour! John Waters Remembers Midcentury TV
Hollis Griffin
12. An Audience with John Waters
Jane Giles
Part III. Interview
13. Interview with John Waters Conducted by Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems at his Home in Baltimore, November 2 2023
Filmography
Selected Writing by John Waters
Bibliography
Index