Applause Books. 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 Jerseys 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 awardwinning author John Kenneth Muir returns to the View Askewniverse to consider Kevin Smiths 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 CopOut 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 Smiths films An Askew View 2 remembers the shortlived Clerks cartoon 2000 and diagrams the colorful Smith Lexicon.