Hairspray (Interventions: Studies in Film and Television)
Christina Lane - Hairspray (Interventions: Studies in Film and Television)
Art Nr.: 1405191988
ISBN 13: 9781405191982
B-Nr: INF1001298843
Release Year: 2011
Published by: Wiley-Blackwell
Edition: paperback
Cover: paperback
Cover Format: 216x140x10
Pages: 176
Weight: 225 g
Language: Englisch
Author: Christina Lane
Warengruppe: Hardcover/Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik/Kunst/Fotografie, Film, Video, TV
Beschreibung:
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
Autoreninformationen:
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.