Making camp: rhetorics of transgression in U.S. popular culture
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Main Author: Shugart, Helene A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Tuscaloosa University of Alabama Press ©2008
Series:Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
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Online Access:DE-1046
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index
Introduction: trail map -- Camp grounds: histories and characters of camp -- Breaking camp: co-optation and critical logics -- Xena: camped crusader -- Karen Walker: drag hag -- Macy Gray: Venus in drag -- Gwen Stafani: Camp Vamp -- Conclusion: Camp sites
Examines the rhetoric and conventions of "camp" in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (189 pages)
ISBN:0817316078

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