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Making camp : rhetorics of transgression in U.S. popular culture / Helene A. Shugart and Catherine Egley Waggoner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Shugart, Helene A., 1966-
- Series:
- Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
- Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Popular culture--United States.
- Popular culture.
- Camp (Style).
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (200 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Making Camp examines the rhetoric and conventions of "camp" in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality. Camp has long been aligned with gay male culture and performance. Helene Shugart and Catherine Waggoner contend that camp in the popular media-whether visual, dramatic, or musical-is equally pervasive. While aesthetic and performative in nature, the authors argue that camp-female camp in particular-is also highly political an
- Contents:
- CONTENTS; Acknowledgments; Introduction: Trail Map; 1 Camp Grounds: Histories and Characters of Camp; 2 Breaking Camp: Co-optation and Critical Logics; 3 Xena: Camped Crusader; 4 Karen Walker: Drag Hag; 5 Macy Gray: Venus in Drag; 6 Gwen Stefani: Camp Vamp; Conclusion: Camp Sites; Notes; References; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-185) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780817380113
- 0817380116
- OCLC:
- 608535598
- Publisher Number:
- heb40239 hdl
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