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Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic

Advancing New Perspectives

Bruce E Drushel editor Brian M Peters editor

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Lexington Books

Published:15th Feb '17

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Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic: Advancing New Perspectives marks 50 years of writing and cultural production on the phenomenon of camp since Susan Sontag’s 1964 cornerstone essay “Notes on ‘Camp’.” It provides cutting-edge theory and understanding on ways to read and interpret camp through a collection of essays from historical, theoretical, and cultural perspectives. It includes varied subject areas including camp icons, stylistics periods, and important and representative texts from television, film, and literature. These essays create a scholarly conversation that understands camp as not only signifier or aesthetic but also a language, mode, and style that goes beyond its initial linguistic and semiotic guise. The contributors, representing a diverse group of established and rising scholars, explore camp as a largely queer genre that includes varying modes of understanding of desire and of the self outside a hegemonic model of heteronormativity.

Camp is not dead!  This wonderful new volume explores its persistent effects on contemporary culture, from Dolly Parton to Madonna and from RuPaul’s Drag Race to House of 1000 Corpses.  Drushel and Peters have assembled a collection of smart, witty, and accessible essays that explore how and why camp remains an important aspect of pop culture criticism even into the 21st century.  -- Harry M. Benshoff, University of North Texas
More than fifty years since the publication of Sontag’s "Notes on Camp," this eclectic collection reconsiders the mainstream proliferation of camp’s affective differences (and indifferences) within a broad mass cultural politics of queer feeling. -- Dana Heller, Old Dominion University

ISBN: 9781498537766

Dimensions: 235mm x 162mm x 22mm

Weight: 513g

268 pages