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Hairspray: Heller/Hairspray by Dana Heller(auth.), Diane Negra, Yvonne Tasker(eds.) is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Hairspray: Heller/Hairspray about?

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):

Who reads Hairspray: Heller/Hairspray?

Author

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

Publisher

Wiley-Blackwell; Wiley-Interscience

Published

2011

Language

EN

ISBN

9781405191623

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Sports, Literary Fiction