When filmmaker John Waters wrote in Mr. Know-It-All, his 2019 memoir, "Somehow I became respectable," he likely had no idea that four years later, he'd achieve the ultimate in respectability as the subject of an Academy Museum of Motion Pictures retrospective: John Waters: Pope of Trash. This audacious and vivacious companion volume looks back at his 12 feature films and four shorts--40 years of spirited schlock and experiments in shock. The book brims with movie stills and souvenirs from Waters's cinematic outings: props, production-design drawings, and so on. All this reinforces a remark made by film historian Jeanine Basinger, one of several writers who contribute essays on Waters's work: "His world is a wild ride, all right, but someone sane is driving." --Nell Beram, author and freelance writer