pstrongIrreverent, heartfelt, shocking and laugh-out-loud funny--a colorful celebration of the work of subversive auteur John WatersstrongppKnown 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 iPink Flamingosi 1972, iFemale Troublei 1974, iDesperate Livingi 1977, iHairsprayi 1988, iSerial Momi 1994 and iA Dirty Shamei 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. iJohn Waters Pope of Trashi accompanies a landmark exhibition at the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the first dedicated solely to Waters' films. The book