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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cleto, Fabio, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Gay people--Attitudes.

Gay people.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 523 pages)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2008.

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 simultaneously '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.The only comprehensive reader on camp to dateGathers the best and historically most significant essays on the subjectArranges the essays in thematic/historical sections for ease of useA long Introduction provides a challenging rethinking of camp, and a historical/theoretical framework for research on the subjectThe first definitive bibliography on camp

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

Posology (or, How to Read a Reader)

Introduction: Queering the Camp

Section I: Tasting it

Introduction

1 From The World in the Evening

2 'Notes on "Camp"'

3 'Campe-toi!: On the Origins and Definitions of Camp'

4 From Camp: The Lie That Tells The Truth

Section II: Flaunting the Closet

5 'Role Models'

6 'It's Being So Camp as Keeps Us Going'

7 'The Cinema of Camp (aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility)'

8 'For Interpretation: Notes against Camp'

9 'Sex and Address in Dynasty'

10 'Homosexual Signs (In Memory of Roland Barthes)'

11 'Forgery'

12 'Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic'

Section III: Gender, and Other Spectacles

13 From 'Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations of the Male Body'

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

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

16 'Genderfuck: The Law of the Dildo'

17 'What Makes the Feminist Camp?'

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

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

19 'Uses of Camp'

20 'The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series'

21 'Warhol's Camp'

Section V: The Queer Issue

22 'From Interiority to Gender Performatives'

23 'Boys Will Be Girls: Drag and Transvestic Fetishism'

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

25 'Camping in the Art Closet: The Politics of Camp and Nation in German Film'

26 'The Deaths of Camp'

Digging the Scene:

Index of names

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781474465809

1474465803