Heller, Dana
Hairspray
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
Keywords: John Waters, Gender Studies, Civil Rights Movement, Integration, LGBT, Musical, Camp, teen-pic, Divine
- Author(s)
- Heller, Dana
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons, Inc.
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Imprint
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Page amount
- 144 pages
- Categories
- General Works
- Art, Art History
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (ePUB)
- 9781444395624
- Printed ISBN
- 9781405191623