Redefining kitsch and camp in literature and culture / edited by Justyna Stępień.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stępień, Justyna, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kitsch--In literature.

Kitsch.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (217 p.)

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Redefining Kitsch and Camp in Literature and Culture is a collection of fourteen essays dealing with the performative character of kitsch and camp aesthetics in popular culture and avant-garde productions. Anticipated in both literature and culture, the book traces the evolution of two aesthetics from a number of theoretical perspectives, including gender studies, queer studies, popular culture studies, aesthetics, film studies and postcolonial studies. The volume provides a much-needed comme...

Contents:

TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION; CHAPTER ONE; BAD ROMANCE; TRADITIONAL KITSCH AND THE JANUS-HEADOF COMFORT; CHAPTER TWO; HAG HORROR HEROINES; THE INFLUENCE OF THE GRAND-GUIGNOLON THE CHIAROSCURO AND GIALLOHORRORMOVIES OF MARIO BAVA; CHAPTER THREE; CONTEMPORARY ANGLO-AMERICAN POETRYAND THE RHETORICAL BOMB; MINA LOY'S DECONSTRUCTIONSOF MODERNITY AS AN EARLY INSTANCEOF MODERNIST CAMP POETICS; GAMES WITH KITSCH IN THE WORKSOF SHERMAN ALEXIE AND THOMAS KING; CHAPTER FOUR; ART AND KITSCH IN BRIAN DE PALMA'SPHANTOM OF THE PARADISE; "DIAMONDS ARE A GIRL'S BEST FRIEND"; CHAPTER FIVE

CINEMATIC DELIBERATIONSCAMP TONE IN ANGELS IN AMERICADIRECTED BY MIKE NICHOLS; CHAPTER SIX; "ORIENTAL AS ORNAMENTAL"; FROM LUBIEWO TO LOVETOWN; MANDONNA; CONTRIBUTORS; INDEX

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 15, 2014).

ISBN:

1-4438-6779-9

OCLC:

892243532