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Duke University Press - Camp TV
an effort to manage the virtuality of both sex and publicness.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
encounter and rework historical antecedents particular to queer, especially gay male, sociality: chiefly cruising and hooking up.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
the particular ways in which these are expressed vary widely and offer important counterpoints to the representational and narrative ideologies of commercial pornography.
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
- Since it entered the English language in the late 19th Century, the term has been subject to various interpretations, and there still doesn’t seem be a consensus. - Susan Sontag’s 1964 essay Notes on Camp is the inspiration for the 2019 Metropolitan Museum of Art gala and accompanying exhibition. In it, the late writer and filmmaker wrote: “To sn... See more
Joobin Bekhrad • What does it mean to be camp?
By bringing sexuality to the fore, the movement effectively created sexuality
Shaka McGlotten • Virtual Intimacies: Media, Affect, and Queer Sociality
- In 1964, Susan Sontag defined camp as an aesthetic “sensibility” that is plain to see but hard for most of us to explain: an intentional over-the-top-ness, a slightly (or extremely) “off” quality, bad taste as a vehicle for good art. - Camp is artificial, passionate, serious, Sontag writes. Camp is Art Noveau objects, Greta Garbo, Warner Brothers... See more