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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Bruce E. Drushel and Brian M. Peters - Contributions by Barbara Jane Brickman; Emily Deering Crosby; Tim Cusack; Bruce E. Drushel; Robert Kellerman; Lauren Levitt; Hannah Lynn; Elizabeth M. Melton; Olivia Oliver-Hopkins; Carl Schottmiller; Micha Klappentext This collection uses Susan Sontag's "Notes on 'Camp'" as a foundation from which to explore current topics related to camp. It recognizes Sontag's work as significant in spurring examination of the phenomenon but also limited in its descriptive rather than philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual nature. Zusammenfassung This collection uses Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp’” as a foundation from which to explore current topics related to camp. It recognizes Sontag’s work as significant in spurring examination of the phenomenon but also limited in its descriptive rather than philosophical, theoretical, and conceptual nature. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsIntroduction: Some Notes on "Notes" Brian M. Peters and Bruce E. DrushelPart I: Camp in LiteratureChapter 1: Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian "Sicko" Barbara Jane BrickmanChapter 2: Queer Ideology in the Novels of Joe Keenan Robert Kellerman Part II: Camp and CelebrityChapter 3: Authentic Artifice: Dolly Parton's Negotiations of Sontag's Camp Emily Deering Crosby and Hannah LynnChapter 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 TelevisionChapter 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 SchottmillerPart IV: Camp and PlaceChapter 8: Everything is Bigger in Texas: Camp and the Queerly Normal in Greater Tuna Elizabeth M. Melton Chapter 9: "I's Got to Get Me Some Edu-cation!": Class and the Camp-Horror Nexus in House of 1000 Corpses Olivia Oliver-Hopkins Part V: Camp and Aesthetics Chapter 10: Batman and the Aesthetics of Camp Lauren Levitt Chapter 11: Prison Camp: Aesthetic Style as Social Practice in Orange Is the New Black Thomas Piontek Chapter 12: Camp, Androgyny, and 1990: The Post-Gendered Spaces of Vogue Brian M. Peters Chapter 13: Pretty is Not Enough: Notes for a Grotesque Camp Michael V. Perez About the Editors and Contributors...
