(born 1946) Director. Baltimore-born independent auteur/ cult director who sarcastically celebrates and skewers his city the middle class and suburbia gone bad. After his initial experience of pornographic film, his Mondo Trasho (1970) and Pink Flamingos (1972), showcasing the 300-pound transvestite Divine, offered visual offenses that rivaled Bunuel and Dali. This partnership and vision continued in Female Trouble (1975) and Polyester (1981). Waters has become more mainstream in his later work, although maintaining a wry vision of race relations (Hairspray, 1988), American domesticity (Serial Mom, 1994) and urban aesthetics (Pecker, 1998). See Waters’ autobiographical Shock Value (1995)