Hairspray (Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television)
Book Details
Author(s)Dana Heller
PublisherWiley-Blackwell
ISBN / ASIN1405191627
ISBN-139781405191623
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Sales Rank8,561,107
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
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' films
- Incorporates original interview material with the director
- Reveals meanings embedded in the film's narrative treatment of racial and sexual politics
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