Dana Heller

Hairspray

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Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Wiley-Blackwell Series in Film and Television
• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 172
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Juli 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 225g
• ISBN-13: 9781405191982
• ISBN-10: 1405191988
• Artikelnr.: 33353206

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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.