An askew view 2 - John Kenneth Muir

In the year 2002
An Askew View: The Films of Kevin Smith was the first book to gaze at the cinema of one of New Jersey's favorite sons
the independent and controversial auteur of Clerks (1994)
Mallrats (1995)
Chasing Amy (1997)
Dogma (1999) and Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (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 Jersey Girl (2004) to the controversial Zack and Miri Make a Porno (2008)
from the critically derided Cop-Out (2010) to the incendiary and provocative horror film Red State (2011)
An Askew View 2 studies the Kevin Smith movie equation as it exists today
almost two full decades after Smith maxed out his credit card
made Clerks with his friends
shopped it at Sundance
and commenced his Hollywood journey. In addition to Kevin Smith's films
An Askew View 2 remembers the short-lived Clerks cartoon (2000) and diagrams the colorful Smith Lexicon.