Filthy: The Weird World of John Waters

by Robrt Pela

Paperback, 2002

Status

Available

Call number

PN1998.3.W38 P45 2002

Collection

Publication

Alyson Books (2002), Edition: 1, 240 pages

Description

This is both a biography and a cultural study of John Waters, the cult phenomenon behind such films as Hairspray', 'Polyester', 'Cry Baby' and Pecker'. Recollections of friends and colleagues paint a portrait of a director who is both more and less insane than his own vision, while Pela visits a Baltimore that is a surreal reflection of the director's hyperbolic fantasies, including a beyond-the-grave interview with the infamous Divine, and culminating in a book that is as remarkable, hilarious, boundary-pushing and just plain weird as Waters's own films.

Original language

English

Physical description

240 p.; 5.4 inches
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