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Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess

By Katrin Horn (auth.)

Book information

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
978-3-319-64845-3, 978-3-319-64846-0
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
2 MB (2328790 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
X, 264\270
Time added
2017-11-21 00:00:00
Popular Culture

Description

This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for women’s engagement with contemporary popular culture as exemplified by 30 Rock or Lady Gaga. In detailed analyses of lesbian cinema, postfeminist TV, and popular music, the book offers a novel take on its subject. It defines camp as a unique mode of detached attachment, which builds on affective intensity and emotional investment, while strongly encouraging a critical edge. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Beyond Gay Men and After the Closet: Camp’s New Politics and Pleasures (Katrin Horn)....Pages 1-13 The History and Theory of Camp (Katrin Horn)....Pages 15-33 The Great Dyke Rewrite: Lesbian Camp on the Big Screen (Katrin Horn)....Pages 35-109 TV in/vs. Postfeminism: Feminist Camp in 30 Rock (Katrin Horn)....Pages 111-192 Taking Pop Seriously: Lady Gaga as Camp (Katrin Horn)....Pages 193-252 Camp: A New, More Complex Relation to the Serious (Katrin Horn)....Pages 253-256 Back Matter ....Pages 257-264

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