Hairspray

AvDana Heller

Häftad, Engelska, 2011

Del 12 i serien Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television

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Beskrivning

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 first scholarly work on any of film director John Waters' filmsIncorporates original interview material with the directorReveals meanings embedded in the film's narrative treatment of racial and sexual politics

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2011-07-08
Mått:140 x 217 x 11 mm
Vikt:227 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
Antal sidor:176
Förlag:John Wiley and Sons Ltd
ISBN:9781405191982

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Film inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Dana Heller is Professor and Chair of English at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Virginia. She has written widely about elements of popular culture, gay and lesbian studies, consumer culture, television, and almost all things considered "bad" taste.

Innehållsförteckning

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.