Edited with text by Jenny He and Dara Jaffe. Foreword by Jacqueline Stewart. Text by Jeanine Basinger, B. Ruby Rich, David Simon, John Waters. Interview with Sean Baker, Debbie Harry, Barry Jenkins, Johnny Knoxville, Bruce LaBruce, Ricki Lake, Orville Peck, Iggy Pop, Cindy Sherman, Kathleen Turner, Christine Vachon, Edgar Wright.
Irreverent, heartfelt, shocking and laugh-out-loud funny—a colorful celebration of the work of subversive auteur John Waters
Known for pushing the boundaries of good taste, John Waters (born 1946) has created a canon of high-shock-value, high-entertainment movies that have cemented his position as one of the most revered and subversive auteurs in American independent cinema. Featuring misfit muses, tributes to his hometown of Baltimore and themes of fetish, obsession and celebrity culture, his renegade films—including Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Desperate Living (1977), Hairspray (1988), Serial Mom (1994) and A Dirty Shame (2004)—are irreverent, laugh-out-loud comedies that lovingly draw inspiration from William Castle, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Andy Warhol and Pier Paolo Pasolini alike. John Waters: Pope of Trash accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the first dedicated solely to Waters’ films. The book presents costumes, props, handwritten scripts, concept drawings, correspondence, promotional gimmicks, production photography and other original materials from all of the filmmaker’s features and shorts. Spotlighting many of his longtime collaborators, it also features a new interview with Waters and texts by curators Jenny He and Dara Jaffe, film historian Jeanine Basinger, film critic and cultural theorist B. Ruby Rich, and author-writer-producer David Simon that explore how Waters’ movies have redefined the possibilities of independent cinema.
PRAISE AND REVIEWS
Guardian
Andrew Gumbel
The exhibit is full of sly jokes and knowing winks at Waters’ most diehard fans.
New Yorker
Michael Schulman
Still, with his pervert-chic pencil mustache and X-rated aphorisms, Waters [has] retained the joyful, transgressive spirit of a perennial outsider.
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“In his world, poor taste is preferred, the grotesque is beautiful, and respectability is a filthy word, yet filth itself commands respect.” So writes Academy Museum associate curator Dara Jaffe in our 2023 Halloween Staff Pick,John Waters: Pope of Trash, co-published with DelMonico Books. Featured here, the one and only Divine playing unrepentant, degenerate criminal Babs Johnson, defending the title of “filthiest person alive” in Waters' indelible 1972 feature, Pink Flamingos. continue to blog
“In his world, poor taste is preferred, the grotesque is beautiful, and respectability is a filthy word, yet filth itself commands respect.” So writes Academy Museum associate curator Dara Jaffe in our 2023 Halloween Staff Pick,John Waters: Pope of Trash, co-published with DelMonico Books. Featured here, the one and only Divine playing unrepentant, degenerate criminal Babs Johnson, defending the title of “filthiest person alive” in Waters' indelible 1972 feature, Pink Flamingos. continue to blog
FORMAT: Hbk, 8.75 x 12 in. / 256 pgs / 295 color / 68 b&w. LIST PRICE: U.S. $59.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $85.95 GBP £52.99 ISBN: 9781636810850 PUBLISHER: DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures AVAILABLE: 10/17/2023 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by DelMonico Books/Academy Museum of Motion Pictures. Edited with text by Jenny He and Dara Jaffe. Foreword by Jacqueline Stewart. Text by Jeanine Basinger, B. Ruby Rich, David Simon, John Waters. Interview with Sean Baker, Debbie Harry, Barry Jenkins, Johnny Knoxville, Bruce LaBruce, Ricki Lake, Orville Peck, Iggy Pop, Cindy Sherman, Kathleen Turner, Christine Vachon, Edgar Wright.
Irreverent, heartfelt, shocking and laugh-out-loud funny—a colorful celebration of the work of subversive auteur John Waters
Known for pushing the boundaries of good taste, John Waters (born 1946) has created a canon of high-shock-value, high-entertainment movies that have cemented his position as one of the most revered and subversive auteurs in American independent cinema. Featuring misfit muses, tributes to his hometown of Baltimore and themes of fetish, obsession and celebrity culture, his renegade films—including Pink Flamingos (1972), Female Trouble (1974), Desperate Living (1977), Hairspray (1988), Serial Mom (1994) and A Dirty Shame (2004)—are irreverent, laugh-out-loud comedies that lovingly draw inspiration from William Castle, Herschell Gordon Lewis, Russ Meyer, Andy Warhol and Pier Paolo Pasolini alike. John Waters: Pope of Trash accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the first dedicated solely to Waters’ films. The book presents costumes, props, handwritten scripts, concept drawings, correspondence, promotional gimmicks, production photography and other original materials from all of the filmmaker’s features and shorts. Spotlighting many of his longtime collaborators, it also features a new interview with Waters and texts by curators Jenny He and Dara Jaffe, film historian Jeanine Basinger, film critic and cultural theorist B. Ruby Rich, and author-writer-producer David Simon that explore how Waters’ movies have redefined the possibilities of independent cinema.
