The first title in the Queer Film Classic series to focus on the work oflegendary director and cinematic camp icon John Waters, best known for theunderground classic Pink Flamingos and his later more commercial workssuch as Crybaby, starring Johnny Depp, and Hairspray, which wasalso made into a hit stage and film musical. Chris Holmlund's bookexamines the film's camp aethestic and its position in the history ofindependent film.