{"product_id":"sontag-and-the-camp-aesthetic-9781498537766","title":"Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSontag 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCamp 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\u003cbr\u003eMore 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  Introduction: Some Notes on “Notes” \tBrian M. Peters and Bruce E. Drushel  Part I: Camp in Literature  Chapter 1: Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian “Sicko” \tBarbara Jane Brickman  Chapter 2: Queer Ideology in the Novels of Joe Keenan  \tRobert Kellerman   Part II: Camp and Celebrity  Chapter 3: Authentic Artifice: Dolly Parton’s Negotiations of Sontag’s Camp \tEmily Deering Crosby and Hannah Lynn  Chapter 4: Diva Worship as a Queer Poetics of Waste in D. Gilson’s Brit Lit \tChris Philpot   Chapter 5: Camping in the Closet: Susan Sontag and the Construction of the Celebrity Persona \tTim Cusack   Part III: Camp on Television  Chapter 6: Vicious Camp:  Performance, Artifice, and Incongruity \tBruce E. Drushel   Chapter 7: “Excuse My Beauty!”: Camp Referencing and Memory Activation on RuPaul’s Drag Race” \tCarl Schottmiller  Part IV: Camp and Place  Chapter 8: Everything is Bigger in Texas: Camp and the Queerly Normal in Greater Tuna \tElizabeth M. Melton   Chapter 9: “I’s Got to Get Me Some Edu-cation!”: Class and the Camp-Horror Nexus in House of 1000 Corpses  \tOlivia Oliver-Hopkins   Part V: Camp and Aesthetics   Chapter 10: Batman and the Aesthetics of Camp \tLauren Levitt   Chapter 11: Prison Camp: Aesthetic Style as Social Practice in Orange Is the New Black \tThomas Piontek   Chapter 12: Camp, Androgyny, and 1990: The Post-Gendered Spaces of Vogue \tBrian M. Peters   Chapter 13: Pretty is Not Enough: Notes for a Grotesque Camp \tMichael V. Perez   About the Editors and Contributors","brand":"Lexington Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040722190679,"sku":"9781498537766","price":89.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/sontag-and-the-camp-aesthetic-9781498537766","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}