An Askew View 2
The Films of Kevin Smith
Published on 1. August 2012
256 pages
978-1-4803-0237-2 (ISBN)
Description
In the year 2002, An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith was the first book to gaze at the cinema of one of New Jersey's favorite sons, the independent and controversial auteur of Clerks (1994), Mallrats (1995), Chasing Amy (1997), Dogma (1999) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001). Now, a full decade after that successful original edition, award-winning author John Kenneth Muir returns to the View Askewniverse to consider Kevin Smith's second controversial decade as a film director, social gadfly, and beloved media "talker." From Jersey Girl (2004) to the controversial Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008), from the critically derided Cop-Out (2010) to the incendiary and provocative horror film Red State (2011), An Askew View 2 studies the Kevin Smith movie equation as it exists today, almost two full decades after Smith maxed out his credit card, made Clerks with his friends, shopped it at Sundance, and commenced his Hollywood journey. In addition to Kevin Smith's films, An Askew View 2 remembers the short-lived Clerks cartoon (2000) and diagrams the colorful Smith Lexicon.
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Series
Edition
Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Basingstoke
United States
Publishing group
Hal Leonard Corporation
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
ISBN-13
978-1-4803-0237-2 (9781480302372)
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Book
08/2012
Applause Theatre Book Publishers
€24.80
Shipment within 3-4 weeks
Person
John Kenneth Muir is the award-winning author of more than twenty-five books about film and television and the creator of the web series The House Between (2007-2009). He is the Department Chair for Humanities and Social Sciences at South Piedmont Community College. He lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with his wife, twelve-year-old son, three cats, and a bearded dragon.
Content
- Intro
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- An Askew View 2012
- Part I: THE GOOD OLD DAYS
- 1: Coming of Age in New Jersey
- 2: Clerks (1994)
- 3: Mallrats (1995)
- 4: Chasing Amy (1997)
- 5: Dogma (1999)
- 6: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001)
- 7: Clerks (2000)
- Part II: STATE OF RED
- 8: Jersey Girl (2004)
- 9: Clerks II (2006)
- 10: Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
- 11: Cop Out (2010)
- 12: Red State (2011)
- 13: Kevin Smith Around the Galaxy
- 14: A Tribute to Jay and Silent Bob
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Appendix
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Photo Insert
