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
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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
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Hairspray

Hairspray

by Dana Heller
Hairspray

Hairspray

by Dana Heller

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Overview

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

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781444395624
Publisher: Wiley
Publication date: 03/01/2011
Series: Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 176
File size: 1 MB

About the Author

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.

Table of Contents

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.

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