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Duke University Press - Camp TV
- The Politics and Poetics of Camp is a radical reappraisal of the meaning and discourse of camp. The contributors look at both the meaning and the uses of camp performance, and ask: is camp a style, or a witty but nonetheless powerful cultural critique? The essays investigate camp from its early formations in the seventeenth and eighteenth century t... See more
from Google Books by Routledge
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- - Camp may be easier to identify than to define. Sontag's definition begins, "Camp is a certain mode of aestheticism. It is one way of seeing the world as an aesthetic phenomenon." - “the essence of camp”: an embrace of all things exaggerated, artificial, and over-the-top. - Merriam-Webster’s definition is “something so outrageously artificial, aff... See more
from Ahead Of The Met Gala, Remember: ‘You Can’t Have Camp Without Queer’ by Refinery
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- Carmen Merport Quiñones - camp’s most characteristic qualities—theatricality, extravagance, and a “seriousness that fails - Since the Met has us all talking about camp, we might recall Susan Sontag’s admonition, in her famous essay on the subject, that “To talk about Camp is…to betray it.” - due to Sontag’s initial ‘betrayal,’ camp has long been a ... See more
from What is "Camp"? Five Scholars discuss Sontag, The Met and Camp's Queer Origins by Aesthetics For Birds
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