Sex, Gore and Provocation: the Influence of Exploitation in John Waters’s Early Films by Elise Pereira Nunes

“…His first feature-length movies, Mondo Trasho (1969), Multiple Maniacs (1970), Pink Flamingos (1972) and Female Trouble (1974), which account for the influence of exploitation on the filmmaker’s career, can be described as exploitation cinema themselves to a certain extent and assert the emergence of Waters as the “Pope of Trash.”…”
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