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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.

Table of Contents:
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.

About the Author :
Bruce E. Drushel is associate professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University. Brian M. Peters is tenured in the English Department at Champlain College St. Lambert.

Review :
Camp is not dead! This wonderful new volume explores its persistent effects on contemporary culture, from Dolly Parton to Madonna and from RuPaul’s Drag Race to House of 1000 Corpses. Drushel and Peters have assembled a collection of smart, witty, and accessible essays that explore how and why camp remains an important aspect of pop culture criticism even into the 21st century. More than fifty years since the publication of Sontag’s "Notes on Camp," this eclectic collection reconsiders the mainstream proliferation of camp’s affective differences (and indifferences) within a broad mass cultural politics of queer feeling.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781498537773
  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • Publisher Imprint: Lexington Books
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 286
  • Sub Title: Advancing New Perspectives
  • ISBN-10: 1498537774
  • Publisher Date: 15 Feb 2017
  • Binding: Digital (delivered electronically)
  • Language: English
  • Series Title: Media, Culture, and the Arts
  • Width: 152 mm


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