Sontag and the Camp Aesthetic (eBook)

Bruce E. Drushel is associate professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University.Brian M. Peters is tenured in the English Department at Champlain College St. Lambert.

ContentsIntroduction: Some Notes on “Notes”Brian M. Peters and Bruce E. DrushelPart I: Camp in LiteratureChapter 1: Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian “Sicko”Barbara Jane BrickmanChapter 2: Queer Ideology in the Novels of Joe Keenan Robert Kellerman Part II: Camp and CelebrityChapter 3: Authentic Artifice: Dolly Parton’s Negotiations of Sontag’s CampEmily Deering Crosby and Hannah LynnChapter 4: Diva Worship as a Queer Poetics of Waste in D. Gilson’s Brit LitChris Philpot Chapter 5: Camping in the Closet: Susan Sontag and the Construction of the Celebrity PersonaTim Cusack Part III: Camp on TelevisionChapter 6: Vicious Camp: Performance, Artifice, and IncongruityBruce E. Drushel Chapter 7: “Excuse My Beauty!”: Camp Referencing and Memory Activation on RuPaul’s Drag Race”Carl SchottmillerPart IV: Camp and PlaceChapter 8: Everything is Bigger in Texas: Camp and the Queerly Normal in Greater TunaElizabeth M. Melton Chapter 9: “I’s Got to Get Me Some Edu-cation!”: Class and the Camp-Horror Nexus in House of 1000 CorpsesOlivia Oliver-Hopkins Part V: Camp and Aesthetics Chapter 10: Batman and the Aesthetics of CampLauren Levitt Chapter 11: Prison Camp: Aesthetic Style as Social Practice in Orange Is the New BlackThomas Piontek Chapter 12: Camp, Androgyny, and 1990: The Post-Gendered Spaces of VogueBrian M. Peters Chapter 13: Pretty is Not Enough: Notes for a Grotesque CampMichael V. Perez About the Editors and Contributors