Camp
Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader
1st Edition
Published on 1. June 2019
528 pages
978-1-4744-6580-9 (ISBN)
Description
Addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage.
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Content
- Intro
- CONTENTS
- Acknowledgements
- Posology (or, How to Read a Reader)
- Introduction: Queering the Camp
- Secton I: Tasting It
- Introduction
- 1 From the World in the Evening
- 2 'Notes on ''Camp'''
- 3 'Camp-Toi! On the Origins and Definitations of Camp'
- 4 From Camp: The Lie that Tells the Truth
- Section II: Flaunting the Closet
- Introduction
- 5 'Role Models'
- 6 'It's Being So Camp as Keeps Us Going'
- 7 'The Cinema of Camp (aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility)'
- 8 'For Interpretation: Notes Against Camp'
- 9 'Sex and Addres in Dynasty'
- 10 'Homosexual Signs (in Memory of Roland Barthes)'
- 11 'Forgery'
- 12 'Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic'
- Section III: Gender, and Other Spectacles
- Introduction
- 13 From 'Wilde, Nietzsche and the Sentimental Relations of the Male Body'
- 14 'Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity'
- 15 'Camp Among the Swastikas: Isherwood, Sally Bowles, and ''Good Heter Stuff''
- 16 'Genderfuck: The Law of the Dildo'
- 17 'What Makes the Feminist Camp?'
- 18 ''Who's That Girl?' Annie Lennox, Woolf's Orlando and Female Camp Androgyny'
- Section IV: Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy
- Introduction
- 19 'Uses of Camp'
- 20 'The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp and the Batman Television Series'
- 21 'Warhol's Camp'
- Section V: The Queer Side
- Introduction
- 22 'From 'nteriority to Gender Performatives'
- 23 'Boys will be Girls: Drag and Transvestic Fetishism'
- 24 'Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity", and the Discourse of Camp'
- 25 'Camping in the Art Closet: The Politics of Camp and Nation in German Film'
- 26 'The Deaths of Camp'
- Digging the Scene: A Bibliography of Secondary Materials 1869-1997
- Index of Names
