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ReFocus: The Films of John Waters

Moore, Michelle E. Brems, Brian
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk

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ISBN
9781399543903
Publisert
2025-09-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
280

Redaktør
Moore, Michelle E.
Brems, Brian

Biografisk notat

Michelle E. Moore is Professor of English at the College of Dupage, where she teaches courses in film studies and literature. She is the author of Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald in Conflict (2019) and coeditor of Refocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (2020). She has published articles in Faulkner Studies, Cather Studies, and Literature/Film Quarterly, in addition to contributing chapters to Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll, Rape in Art Cinema, and Hemingway in the Digital Age. Brian Brems is a Professor of English at the College of DuPage, where he teaches film studies. He is the author of The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place (2022) and the co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (2020), with other publications appearing in several edited collections on Westerns and horror films. He is also a regular contributor to a variety of online publications, including Vague Visages.

ReFocus: The Films of John Waters

Moore, Michelle E. Brems, Brian
Innbundet / 2025 / Engelsk
Moore, Michelle E. Brems, Brian
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"The unique and often outlandish films of John Waters, including Pink Flamingos, Cry-Baby and Pecker, require a specifically greased lens if they are to be critically examined. Michelle Moore and Brian Brems have marshalled a stellar troupe of contributors who dismantle Waters' films from a variety of angles, from Waters' 'film family' and identity (including his own), to tropes such as comedy, celebrity culture, trash and melodrama. This is a highly enjoyable and smart book that combines intellectual rigor with the necessary flavour and smell that befits Waters' oeuvre.

Ernest Mathijs, University of British Columbia, author of Cult Cinema, and 100 Cult Films.

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.
Les mer
A major academic study of John Waters’s films from a variety of perspectives covering his work and its intersections with culture.
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
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A major academic study of John Waters’s films from a variety of perspectives covering his work and its intersections with culture

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"The unique and often outlandish films of John Waters, including Pink Flamingos, Cry-Baby and Pecker, require a specifically greased lens if they are to be critically examined. Michelle Moore and Brian Brems have marshalled a stellar troupe of contributors who dismantle Waters' films from a variety of angles, from Waters' 'film family' and identity (including his own), to tropes such as comedy, celebrity culture, trash and melodrama. This is a highly enjoyable and smart book that combines intellectual rigor with the necessary flavour and smell that befits Waters' oeuvre.

Ernest Mathijs, University of British Columbia, author of Cult Cinema, and 100 Cult Films.

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.
Les mer
A major academic study of John Waters’s films from a variety of perspectives covering his work and its intersections with culture.
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
Les mer
A major academic study of John Waters’s films from a variety of perspectives covering his work and its intersections with culture

Produktdetaljer

ISBN
9781399543903
Publisert
2025-09-30
Utgiver
Edinburgh University Press
Høyde
234 mm
Bredde
156 mm
Aldersnivå
UP, 05
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
280

Redaktør
Moore, Michelle E.
Brems, Brian

Biografisk notat

Michelle E. Moore is Professor of English at the College of Dupage, where she teaches courses in film studies and literature. She is the author of Chicago and the Making of American Modernism: Cather, Hemingway, Faulkner and Fitzgerald in Conflict (2019) and coeditor of Refocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (2020). She has published articles in Faulkner Studies, Cather Studies, and Literature/Film Quarterly, in addition to contributing chapters to Modernism in Wonderland: Legacies of Lewis Carroll, Rape in Art Cinema, and Hemingway in the Digital Age. Brian Brems is a Professor of English at the College of DuPage, where he teaches film studies. He is the author of The Films of Walter Hill: Another Time, Another Place (2022) and the co-editor of ReFocus: The Films of Paul Schrader (2020), with other publications appearing in several edited collections on Westerns and horror films. He is also a regular contributor to a variety of online publications, including Vague Visages.

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