Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic

Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic
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Advancing New Perspectives
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Artikel-Nr:
9781498537773
Veröffentl:
2017
Seiten:
286
Autor:
Bruce E. Drushel
Serie:
Media, Culture, and the Arts
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:

This collection uses Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp’” as a foundation from which to explore current topics related to camp. It recognizes Sontag’s work as significant in spurring examination of the phenomenon but also limited in its descriptive rather than philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual nature.
Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic: Advancing New Perspectives marks 50 years of writing and cultural production on the phenomenon of camp since Susan Sontag’s 1964 cornerstone essay “Notes on ‘Camp’.” It provides cutting-edge theory and understanding on ways to read and interpret camp through a collection of essays from historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives. It includes varied subject areas including camp icons, stylistics periods, and important and representative texts from television, film, and literature. These essays create a scholarly conversation that understands camp as not only signifier or aesthetic but also a language, mode, and style that goes beyond its initial linguistic and semiotic guise. The contributors, representing a diverse group of established and rising scholars, explore camp as a largely queer genre that includes varying modes of understanding of desire and of the self outside a hegemonic model of heteronormativity.
Contents

Introduction: Some Notes on “Notes”
Brian M. Peters and Bruce E. Drushel

Part I: Camp in Literature

Chapter 1: Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian “Sicko”
Barbara Jane Brickman

Chapter 2: Queer Ideology in the Novels of Joe Keenan
Robert Kellerman

Part II: Camp and Celebrity

Chapter 3: Authentic Artifice: Dolly Parton’s Negotiations of Sontag’s Camp
Emily Deering Crosby and Hannah Lynn

Chapter 4: Diva Worship as a Queer Poetics of Waste in D. Gilson’s Brit Lit
Chris Philpot

Chapter 5: Camping in the Closet: Susan Sontag and the Construction of the Celebrity Persona
Tim Cusack

Part III: Camp on Television

Chapter 6: Vicious Camp: Performance, Artifice, and Incongruity
Bruce E. Drushel

Chapter 7: “Excuse My Beauty!”: Camp Referencing and Memory Activation on RuPaul’s Drag Race
Carl Schottmiller

Part IV: Camp and Place

Chapter 8: Everything is Bigger in Texas: Camp and the Queerly Normal in Greater Tuna
Elizabeth M. Melton

Chapter 9: “I’s Got to Get Me Some Edu-cation!”: Class and the Camp-Horror Nexus in House of 1000 Corpses
Olivia Oliver-Hopkins

Part V: Camp and Aesthetics

Chapter 10: Batman and the Aesthetics of Camp
Lauren Levitt

Chapter 11: Prison Camp: Aesthetic Style as Social Practice in Orange Is the New Black
Thomas Piontek

Chapter 12: Camp, Androgyny, and 1990: The Post-Gendered Spaces of Vogue
Brian M. Peters

Chapter 13: Pretty is Not Enough: Notes for a Grotesque Camp
Michael V. Perez

About the Editors and Contributors

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