An Askew View 2

The Films of Kevin Smith
AN ASKEW VIEW 2: THE FILMS OF KEVIN SMITH REVISED AND UPDATED EDITION
In the year 2002 ÊAn Askew View: The Films of Kevin SmithÊ was the first book to gaze at the cinema of one of New Jersey's favorite sons the independent and controversial auteur of ÊClerksÊ (1994) ÊMallratsÊ (1995) ÊChasing AmyÊ (1997) ÊDogmaÊ (1999) and ÊJay and Silent Bob Strike BackÊ (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 ÊJersey GirlÊ (2004) to the controversial ÊZack and Miri Make a PornoÊ (2008) from the critically derided ÊCop-OutÊ (2010) to the incendiary and provocative horror film ÊRed StateÊ (2011) ÊAn Askew View 2Ê studies the Kevin Smith movie equation as it exists today almost two full decades after Smith maxed out his credit card made ÊClerksÊ with his friends shopped it at Sundance and commenced his Hollywood journey. In addition to Kevin Smith's films ÊAn Askew View 2Ê remembers the short-lived ÊClerksÊ cartoon (2000) and diagrams the colorful Smith Lexicon.