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The Films of John Waters
Edited by Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems
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Book Presentation:
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.
About the authors:
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.
Press Reviews:
"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.
See the publisher website: Edinburgh University Press
See the complete filmography of John Waters on the website: IMDB ...
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The Films of Walter Hill (2025)
Another Time, Another Place
by Brian Brems
Subject: Director > Walter Hill
The Films of Paul Schrader (2020)
Dir. Michelle E. Moore and Brian Brems
Subject: Director > Paul Schrader
> On a related topic:
John Waters FAQ (2019)
All That's Left to Know About the Provocateur of Bad Taste
by Dale Sherman
Subject: Director > John Waters
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