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

“…A self-taught filmmaker working with very low budgets, fascinated with Hollywood’s glamor as well as exploitation and underground cinema, John Waters has appropriated techniques and modes of production, distribution and promotion specific to exploitation from the beginning of his career in the late 1960s. …”
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Kitsch, classes sociales et multiculturalisme dans My Beautiful Laundrette (Stephen Frears, 1985) by Lionel Souquet

“…In 1985, My Beautiful Laundrette was the movie which earned Stephen Frears full recognition as a filmmaker. Despite a low budget he brought his trademark boldness to Anglo-Pakistani writer Hanif Kureishi’s screenplay. …”
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