Camp : queer aesthetics and the performing subject : a reader / edited by Fabio Cleto.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cleto, Fabio.

Series:

Triangulations

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Homosexuality--Philosophy.

Homosexuality.

Gay people--Attitudes.

Gay people.

Performance art.

Homosexuality in literature.

Physical Description:

xii, 523 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan Press, [1999]

Summary:

Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject 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.

Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp written by leading intellectuals in cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies, and queer theory, this critical anthology at one and the same time 'queers' camp as an issue and offers an excellent key to rethinking the history, theory, and practice of camp.

The anthology is divided into five thematic/historical sections: Tasting It; Flaunting the Closet; Gender, and Other Spectacles; Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy; and The Queer Issue. These essay clusters help the reader situate the critical debates around the subject. A comprehensive bibliography of items from the earliest use of the word 'camp' to the present completes this unique and exciting volume.

A volume in the Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Queer-Theater/Drama/Performance series. A complete list of titles in the series appears at the front of this book.

Contents:

Posology (or, How to Read a Reader) xi

Introduction: Queering the Camp 1

Section I Tasting it

1 From The World in the Evening / Christopher Isherwood 49

2 'Notes on "Camp"' / Susan Sontag 53

3 'Campe-toi!: On the Origins and Definitions of Camp' / Mark Booth 66

4 From Camp: The Lie That Tells The Truth / Philip Core 80

Section II Flaunting the Closet

5 Role Models' / Esther Newton 96

6 'It's Being So Camp as Keeps Us Going' / Richard Dyer 110

7 'The Cinema of Camp (aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility)' / Jack Babuscio 117

8 'For Interpretation: Notes against Camp' / Andrew Britton 136

9 'Sex and Address in Dynasty' / Mark Finch 143

10 'Homosexual Signs (In Memory of Roland Barthes)' / Harold Beaver 160

11 'Forgery' / Neil Bartlett 179

'Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic' / Sue-Ellen Case 185

Section III Gender, and Other Spectacles

13 From 'Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations of the Male Body' / Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick 207

14 'Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity' / Jonathan Dollimore 221

15 'Camp among the Swastikas: Isherwood, Sally Bowles, and "Good Heter Stuff"' / Linda Mizejewski 237

16 'Genderfuck: The Law of the Dildo' / June L. Reich 254

17 'What Makes the Feminist Camp?' / Pamela Robertson 266

18 '"Who's That Girl?" Annie Lennox, Woolf's Orlando, and Female Camp Androgyny' / George Piggford 283

Section IV Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy

19 'Uses of Camp' / Andrew Ross 308

20 'The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series' / Sasha Torres 330

21 'Warhol's Camp' / Matthew Tinkcom 344

Section V The Queer Issue

22 'From Interiority to Gender Performatives' / Judith Butler 361

23 Boys Will Be Girls: Drag and Transvestic Fetishism' / Carole-Anne Tyler 369

24 'Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity", and the Discourse of Camp' / Pamela Robertson 393

25 'Camping in the Art Closet: The Politics of Camp and Nation in German Film' / Johannes von Moltke 409

26 'The Deaths of Camp' / Caryl Flinn 433

Digging the Scene: A bibliography of secondary materials, 1869-1997 458.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0472097229

0472067222

OCLC:

42397814