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Jack Smith’s Flaming Creatures/ B Roll films
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/316516

One of the first films tht inspired John Waters

At midnight on April 29, 1963, the movie screen at New York’s Bleecker Street Cinema lit up with visions of men and women in makeup and dresses; draped white fabric and a tall vase filled with feathery blooms; and

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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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John Waters

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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