An Askew View 2

In the year 2002 EAn Askew View: The Films of Kevin SmithE was the first book to gaze at the cinema of one of New Jersey's favorite sons the independent and controversial auteur of EClerksE (1994) EMallratsE (1995) EChasing AmyE (1997) EDogmaE (1999) and EJay and Silent Bob Strike BackE (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 EJersey GirlE (2004) to the controversial EZack and Miri Make a PornoE (2008) from the critically derided ECop-OutE (2010) to the incendiary and provocative horror film ERed StateE (2011) EAn Askew View 2E studies the Kevin Smith movie equation as it exists today almost two full decades after Smith maxed out his credit card made EClerksE with his friends shopped it at Sundance and commenced his Hollywood journey. In addition to Kevin Smith's films EAn Askew View 2E remembers the short-lived EClerksE cartoon (2000) and diagrams the colorful Smith Lexicon.