📗 Libro en inglés JOHN WATERS: POPE OF TRASH

Irreverent heartfelt shocking and laugh out loud funny a colorful celebration of the work of subversive auteur John Waters Known for pushing the boundaries of good taste John Waters born 1946 has created a canon of high shock value high entertainment movies that have cemented his position as one of the most revered and subversive auteurs in American independent cinema Featuring misfit muses tributes to his hometown of Baltimore and themes of fetish obsession and celebrity culture his renegade films including Pink Flamingos 1972 Female Trouble 1974 Desperate Living 1977 Hairspray 1988 Serial Mom 1994 and A Dirty Shame 2004 are irreverent laugh out loud comedies that lovingly draw inspiration from William Castle Herschell Gordon Lewis Russ Meyer Andy Warhol and Pier Paolo Pasolini alike John Waters Pope of Trash accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures the first dedicated solely to Waters films The book presents costumes props handwritten scripts concept drawings correspondence promotional gimmicks production photography and other original materials from all of the filmmaker s features and shorts Spotlighting many of his longtime collaborators it also features a new interview with Waters and tex