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Hairspray / Dana Heller.
Van Pelt Library PN1997.H2583 H45 2011
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Heller, Dana A. (Dana Alice), 1959-
- Series:
- Wiley-Blackwell series in film and television.
- Wiley-Blackwell series in film and television
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Hairspray (Motion picture : 1988).
- Physical Description:
- pages cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2011.
- Summary:
- There are certain films and shows that resonate with audiences everywhere - they generate discussion and debate about everything from gender, class, citizenship and race to consumerism and social identity. This new 'teachable canon' of film and television introduces students to alternative classics that range from silent film to CSI.
- Hairspray's main character is a 300-pound actor and drag performer; Divine, who not only satirizes myths of gender and maternity, but whose excessive, unruly presence exudes a radical cultural politics John Water's 1988 camp classic is an iconic film that occupies a unique place in the popular imagination, in film studies, and with youth audiences everywhere.
- Hairspray offers a multi-leveled critique of the American social body, and the contradictory politics of race, sex, gender, class and culture that underwrite its national mythologies.
- In this new exploration of the film - which includes original interview material with John Waters - Dana Heller engages readers in thought-provoking discussions about topics ranging from camp and queer theory to gender performance and the body; from debates over postmodern style vs. substance to fandom in popular culture and the history of the American film musical. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- 1 The Roots 7
- 2 Tangled Genres: The Teenpic Gets a Makeover 30
- 3 Hair with Body: Corpulence, Unruliness, and Cultural Subversion 49
- 4 Highlighting History: Hairspray's Uses of Popular Memory 80
- 5 More Than 20 Years and Still Holding: The Many Lives of Hairspray 107.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781405191623
- 1405191627
- 9781405191982
- 1405191988
- OCLC:
- 670324879
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