John Waters
1) Carsick
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
322 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Description
Film director John Waters hitchhikes across America from Baltimore to San Francisco, braving lonely roads and treacherous drivers.
2) Make trouble
Author
Publisher
Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
70 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm.
Description
"When John Waters delivered his gleefully subversive advice to the graduates of the Rhode Island School of Design in 2015, the speech went viral, in part because it was so brilliantly on point about making a living as a creative person. From an icon of popular culture, here is inspiring advice for artists, graduates, and anyone seeking happiness and success on their own terms. Now we all can enjoy his sly wisdom in a manifesto that reminds us, no...
6) Polyester
Series
Criterion collection volume 995
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Description
Follows the life of an overweight middle-class suburban housewife as she sees her world crumble when she discovers that her husband cheats on her, her daughter is pregnant and getting an abortion, and her delinquent son is the serial foot stomper who terrorizes local women.
7) I am Divine
Publisher
Wolfe Video
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD videodisc (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Profiles the life and career of actor, singer, and cross-dresser Divine.
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling show mounted by a troupe of misfits whose shocking proclivities are topped only by those of their leader: the glammer-than-glam, larger-than-life Divine, out for blood after discovering her lover's affair.
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Formats
Description
Throughout his life, Little Richard careened between religion, sex and rock 'n' roll. A treasure trove of archival material brings to life a revolutionary figure, one who reinvented popular music as the ultimate form of self-expression.
10) Serial mom
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, c1994.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Housewife Turner is nearly perfect, except when someone violates her sense of appropriate conduct.
11) Hairspray
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.
Publisher
Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (86 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Between 1970 and 1977, six low budget films shown at midnight transformed the way we make and watch movies: The allegorical freak-out "El topo," the graphic horror of "Night of the living dead," the outrageous filth fest "Pink flamingos," outlaw reggae's "The harder they come," the phenomenal "Rocky horror picture show," and the darkly disturbing "Eraserhead." Discover the stories behind the movies that defied mainstream America to change the world...
Publisher
Art21,Inc
Pub. Date
©2003
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 7 1/2 hr.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Presents 37 diverse artists, taking viewers into artists' studios, homes, and communities to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, creative processes, and sources of inspiration.
15) Hairspray
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Description
In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she believes in.
16) Lynch/Oz
Series
Publisher
Janus Films, The Criterion Channel
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color and black and white ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
The themes, images, and cultural vernacular of Victor Fleming's The Wizard of Oz continue to haunt David Lynch's filmography from his early short "The Alphabet" to his television series Twin Peaks: The Return. Is Lynch trapped in the Land of Oz? If so, what can we learn about his body of work by closely examining how it intersects and communicates with that legendary fantasy? In turn, what do Lynch's films have to say about the enduring resonance...