Kevin Smith: His Films and Fans

This fun and photo-filled biography celebrates the life, films, and fans of the director responsible for such indie cult classics as Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back.

Movie-industry veteran David Gati has compiled and edited a humorous and insightful look at Smiths nearly 30-year filmmaking journey. Through Smiths own funny, honest, and uncensored storiestaken from podcasts, Q&As, and documentariesreaders get to know him as a person, the struggles hes been through, and the people hes worked with, as well as his process for writing, directing, casting, shooting, editing, and showing his films to the public.

• The book is arranged chronologically with each chapter exploring how an aspect of Kevins life is reflected in one of his 14 films.
• Not to be overlooked is Smiths outsized fan base, who relate to the directors down-to-earth persona and his geeky, sometimes juvenile, often-nostalgic regular-person characters. Gati uses their fan art to add a visual facet to the books colorful narrative gems.
• Rounding out this scrapbook presentation are on-set stills, candid personal photos, and memorabilia.

The result is an exploration of how films affect and reflect the popular culture of their time, with a light-hearted analysis of the phenomenon of fandom. This unusual biography is a must-have collectible dedicated to a member of the 90s independent filmmakerswhich includes Quentin Tarantino, Allison Anders, Robert Rodriguez, Hal Hartley, and Spike Leewhose relevance and popularity will only continue to grow.

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