Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader

Fabio Cleto

Published by Edinburgh University Press 1999

Camp

Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader

Fabio Cleto

https://doi.org/10.1515/9781474465809

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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 date
Gathers the best and historically most significant essays on the subject
Arranges the essays in thematic/historical sections for ease of use
A long Introduction provides a challenging rethinking of camp, and a historical/theoretical framework for research on the subject
The first definitive bibliography on camp

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Posology (or, How to Read a Reader) Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Introduction: Queering the Camp Fabio Cleto Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Section I: Tasting it
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
1 From The World in the Evening Christopher Isherwood Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	49
2 'Notes on "Camp"' Susan Sontag Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	53
3 'Campe-toi!: On the Origins and Definitions of Camp' Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	66
4 From Camp: The Lie That Tells The Truth Philip Core Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	80
Section II: Flaunting the Closet
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	87
5 'Role Models' Esther Newton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	96
6 'It's Being So Camp as Keeps Us Going' Richard Dyer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	110
7 'The Cinema of Camp (aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility)' Jack Babuscio Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	117
8 'For Interpretation: Notes against Camp' Andrew Britton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
9 'Sex and Address in Dynasty' Mark Finch Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
10 'Homosexual Signs (In Memory of Roland Barthes)' Harold Beaver Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	160
11 'Forgery' Neil Bartlett Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
12 'Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic' Sue-Ellen Case Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	185
Section III: Gender, and Other Spectacles
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
13 From 'Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations of the Male Body' Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	207
14 'Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity' Jonathan Dollimore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	221
15 'Camp among the Swastikas: Isherwood, Sally Bowles, and "Good Heter Stuff"' Linda Mizejewski Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237
16 'Genderfuck: The Law of the Dildo' June L. Reich Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	254
17 'What Makes the Feminist Camp?' Pamela Robertson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	266
18 "'Who's That Girl?" Annie Lennox, Woolf's Orlando, and Female Camp Androgyny' George Piggford Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	283
Section IV: Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	301
19 'Uses of Camp' Andrew Ross Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	308
20 'The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series' Sasha Torres Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	330
21 'Warhol's Camp' Matthew Tinkcom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	344
Section V: The Queer Issue
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	355
22 'From Interiority to Gender Performatives' Judith Butler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	361
23 'Boys Will Be Girls: Drag and Transvestic Fetishism' Carole-Anne Tyler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	369
24 'Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity", and the Discourse of Camp' Pamela Robertson Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	393
25 'Camping in the Art Closet: The Politics of Camp and Nation in German Film' Johannes Von Moltke Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	409
26 'The Deaths of Camp' Caryl Flinn Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	433
Digging the Scene: A bibliography of secondary materials, 1869-1997 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	458
Index of names Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	513

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 528
Keywords: Gender Studies

eBook

Published: February 15, 2022
ISBN: 9781474465809