{ "item_title" : "Camp", "item_author" : [" Fabio Cleto "], "item_description" : "This groundbreaking collection addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage. Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp written by leading intellectuals in cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies and queer theory, this critical anthology both queers camp as an issue and offers an excellent key to rethinking the history, theory, and practice of camp. The anthology is divided into five thematic historical sections: Tasting It; Flaunting the Closet; Gender, and Other Spectacles; Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy; and The Queer Issue. These groupings help the reader situate the critical debates around the subject. Fabio Cleto's introduction brings new theoretical insights to the subject of camp while tracing its history as an object of intellectual and cultural critique and analysis. A comprehensive bibliography that traces the earliest use of the word 'camp' to the present completes this unique and exciting volume. Fabio Cleto teaches English Literature at the University of Bergamo in Italy. He has published on biography and authorship, on turn-of-the-century literary writing, on cultural materialism and queer theory, and on the theory and history of camp. Table of Contents Introduction--Queering the Camp I. Tasting It 1. Christopher Isherwood, From The World in the Evening 2. Susan Sontag, Notes on Camp 3. Mark Booth, Campe-toi!: On the Origins and Definitions of Camp 4. Philip Core, From Camp: The Lie That Tells the Truth II. Flaunting the Closet 5. Esther Newton, Role Models 6. Richard Dyer, It's Being So Camp as Keeps Us Going 7. Jack Babuscio, The Cinema of Camp, aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility 8. Andrew Britton, For Interpretation--Notes Against Camp 9. Harold Beaver, Homosexual Signs (In Memory of Roland Barthes) 10. Neil Bartlett, Forgery 11. Mark Finch, Sex and Address in Dynasty 12. Sue-Ellen Case, Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic III. Gender, and Other Spectacles 13. Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, From Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations of the Male Body 14. Jonathan Dollimore, Post modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity 15. Linda Mizejewski, Camp Among the Swastikas: Isherwood, Sally Bowles, and Good Heter Stuff 16. June Reich, Genderfuck: The Law of the Dildo 17. Pamela Robertson, What Makes the Feminist Camp? 18. George Piggford, Who's That Girl? Annie Lennox, Woolf's Orlando, and Female Camp Androgyny IV. Pop Camp, Surplus Value, or, the Camp of Cultural Economy 19. Andrew Ross, Uses of Camp 20. Sasha Torres, The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series 21. Matthew Tinkcom, Warhol's Camp V. The Queer Issue 22. Judith Butler, From Interiority to Gender Performatives 23. Carole-Anne Tyler, Boys Will Be Girls: Drag and Transvestic Fetishism 24. Pamela Robertson, Mae West's Maids: Race, Authenticity, and the Discourse of Camp 25. Johannes von Moltke, Camping in the Art Closet: The Politics of Camp and Nation in German Film 26. Caryl Flinn, The Deaths of Camp Digging the Scene: A Bibliography of Secondary Materials, 1869-1997 Distributed by the University of Michigan Press in Canada and the United States and its dependencies.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/0/47/206/722/0472067222_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "34.95", "online_price" : "34.95", "our_price" : "34.95", "club_price" : "34.95", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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