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Book SynopsisCamp TV of the 1960s offers a comprehensive understanding of all of the many forms camp TV took during that critical decade. In reevaluating the history of camp on television, the authors reconsider the infantilized conceptualization of sixties television, which has generally been characterized as the creative and cultural ebb between the 1950s Golden Age of television and the networks'' shift to relevance in the early 1970s. Encompassing contributions from a broad range of media and television scholars that (re)consider programs like Batman, The Monkees, The Addams Family, Bewitched, F Troop, The Beverly Hillbillies, and Rowan & Martin''s Laugh-In, chapters closely examine beloved 1960s American prime-time programs that drew significantly on aspects of camp, many of which were widely syndicated and left continuing imprints on popular culture. Other chapters consider key TV precursors from the early sixties; British camp television programs such as The Avengers; the use of musical code
Table of ContentsIntroduction: Camp(ing) in the 1960s Chapter One: Gilligan and Captain Kirk Have More in Common Than You Think: 1960s Camp TV as an Alternative Genealogy for Cult Television Section I: Laying the (Camp)Groundwork Chapter Two: Fractured Flickers (1963-64), Camp, and Cinema's Ab/usable Past Chapter Three: Wearing French Cuffs to a Gunfight: Camp and Violence in Hanna-Barbera's Snagglepuss (1961) Section II: Camp TV's Tentpoles Chapter Four: They're Creepy and They're Campy: Camping the American Family on 1960s Horror Television Chapter Five: Spellcasting Camp: Bewitched (1964-72) Chapter Six: How the West Was Fun: F Troop (1965-67) and the American Frontier Chapter Seven: "Holy Fruit Salad, Batman!": Unmasking Queer Conceits of ABC's Late-1960s Branding Chapter Eight: "We're Being Passed off as Something We Aren't": Authenticity vs. Camp on The Monkees (1966-68) Chapter Nine: Straight Male Spies, Queer Camp Vistas: The Evolution of Non-Normative Masculinities in The Avengers (1961-69) and 1960s British Spy-fi TV Section III: Other Camp(TV)sites Chapter Ten: Can TV Music Be Camp? Notes from the 1960s Chapter Eleven: Flipper's (1964-67) Dark Camp Chapter Twelve: Camp TV, The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-71), and Flip Wilson's (1970-74) Geraldine Jones: Negativity, Trans Gender Queer, and the Comedy of Manners Chapter Thirteen: "Far Right, Far Left and Far Out": Mainstreaming Camp on American Television Afterword: Questions of Taste and Pre-cult/Post-cult Index
