| International Standard Book Number |
9781682196236 electronic book
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781682196410 paperback
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| International Standard Book Number |
1682196410 paperback
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| Personal Name |
Sloan, Will, 1989- author.
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| Title Statement |
Ed Wood : made in Hollywood USA / Will Sloan.
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| Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice |
New York : OR Books, 2025.
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| Physical Description |
163 pages : illustration ; 21 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
A lady is a lady -- I have no home -- Your stupid minds -- Between the living and the dead -- S-E-X with a double X -- The one I'll be remembered for -- Bad movies.
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| Summary, Etc. |
For generations, Ed Wood has been known as "the worst director of all time." This sympathetic critical study repositions the director of Plan 9 from Outer Space as a maverick independent whose work challenges the boundary between "bad" and "good." When Edward D. Wood, Jr. died in 1978 at fifty-four, just days after being evicted from his home, he was largely forgotten. Two years later, he was named "Worst Director of All Time" -- a title that cemented his cult status. By the time a youthful Johnny Depp starred in an eponymous movie about the filmmaker in 1994, Wood's low-budget films including Plan 9 from Outer Space, Glen or Glenda, and Bride of the Monster, had become beloved "so bad they're good" classics. Since then, rediscovered words and shifting cultural attitudes have led new audiences to embrace his eccentric style and ahead-of-his-time takes on gender and genre. This book is a critical reappraisal that takes Wood seriously, positioning him as a true independent who blurs the lines between high and low art. Will Sloan traces his marginal career -- from Bela Legosi collaborations to pornographic films -- and explores how Wood's chaotic sets, fading stars, and taboo subjects created something singular. Placing his films in their cultural context, Sloan reveals how Wood fused grindhouse with avant-garde, nostalgia with innovation, and failure with vision. Marking the centennial of Wood's birth, this engaging take is both a timely investigation into the politics of taste and a loving tribute to a defiant outsider artist.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Wood, Edward D., (Edward Davis), Jr. 1924-1978.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion picture producers and directors United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Motion pictures History. United States
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Cross-dressers United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Art and motion pictures.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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