Category: Desperate Living
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Queerness, Temporality, and Transition: The Identity of Mortville in John Waters’ Desperate Living
The 1977 John Waters film Desperate Living is built around the non-normative, defined and displayed within the film through sexuality, gender expression and identity, and the breaking of many social norms and taboos. Its primary setting, the fictional shantytown of Mortville, located outside Baltimore, is a place unlike any other where many people who would…
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