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Hairspray

By Diane Negra , Dana Heller(auth.) , Yvonne Tasker(eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Wiley-Blackwell
Year
2011
ISBN
9781405191623, 9781444395631
DOI
10.1002/9781444395631
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2458338 bytes)
Pages
169\169
Orientation
yes
Scanned
yes
Time added
2013-08-01 04:00:00

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 Content: Chapter 1 The Roots (pages 7–29): Chapter 2 Tangled Genres: The Teenpic Gets a Makeover (pages 30–48): Chapter 3 Hair with Body: Corpulence, Unruliness, and Cultural Subversion (pages 49–79): Chapter 4 Highlighting History: Hairspray's Uses of Popular Memory (pages 80–106): Chapter 5 More than 20 Years and Still Holding: The Many Lives of Hairspray (pages 107–133):

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