By reconsidering assumptions about mainstream popular culture and its revolutionary possibilities, author Dana Heller reveals that John Waters' popular 1988 film Hairspray is the director's most subversive movie. Represents the firstscholarly work on any of film director John Waters' films Incorporates original interview material with the director Reveals meanings embedded in the film's narrative treatment of racial and sexual politics INDICE: List of Figures. Acknowledgments. Introducing Hairspray. 1 The Roots. 2 Tangled Genres: The Teenpic Gets a Makeover. 3 Hair with Body: Corpulence, Unruliness, and Cultural Subversion. 4 Highlighting History: Hairspray's Uses of Popular Memory. 5 More Than 20 Years and Still Holding: The Many Lives of Hairspray. Notes. Bibliography. Index.
- ISBN: 978-1-4051-9198-2
- Editorial: Wiley-Blackwell
- Encuadernacion: Rústica
- Páginas: 176
- Fecha Publicación: 01/07/2011
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés