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Abi Turner
100 American Independent Films: BFI Screen Guides
by Jason Wood
British Film Institute, 2009
Pink Flamingos
US, 1972 – 95 mins – John Waters
DOI: 10.5040/9781838710651.0071
Page Range: 170–172
Born in Baltimore, which, portrayed as a gloriously OTT hotbed of degeneracy, has continued as the setting for his films, Waters cites his middle-class, Catholic
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Mennel, Barbara. Queer Cinema : Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys, Columbia University Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ual/detail.action?docID=946274.
Waters began making films with shock value in the 1960s in Baltimore, a city defined by urban grittiness, B-movie houses and working-class
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by Joseph McBrinn
DOI: 10.5040/9781474248983.ch-001
Page Range: 27–44
The American director John Waters’s 1974 Female Trouble was one of the first in a series of films to establish the campy, outlandish, and monstrous domestic characters and situations that attracted both recognition and notoriety. In Fema
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Mennel, Barbara. Queer Cinema : Schoolgirls, Vampires, and Gay Cowboys, Columbia University Press, 2012. ProQuest Ebook Central, http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/ual/detail.action?docID=946274.
Because camp cuts across experimental avant-garde film, popart and trash cinema, the chapter’s second section connects analyses of
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John Waters has been called many things: the Prince of Puke, the People’s Pervert, the Pope of Trash. But, above all, he’s a storyteller. For nearly 60 years he’s offered a uniquely subversive form of social commentary by bulldozing through contemporary notions of American “good taste”. No other film director would devise a scene where an
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