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The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics
Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina
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- English
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eBook - ePub
The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics
Queer Economies of Dirt, Dust and Patina
About this book
"Camp" is often associated with glamour, surfaces and an ostentatious display of chic, but as these authors argue, there is an underside to it that has often gone unnoticed: camp's simultaneous investment in dirt, vulgarity, the discarded and rejected, the abject. This book explores how camp challenges and at the same time celebrates what is arguably the single most important and foundational cultural division, that between the dirty and the clean. In refocusing camp as a phenomenon of the dark underside as much as of the glamorous surface, the collection hopes to offer an important contribution to our understanding of the cultural politics and aesthetics of camp.
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Yes, you can access The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics by Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Franziska Bergmann, Georg Vogt, Ingrid Hotz-Davies,Franziska Bergmann,Georg Vogt in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & LGBT Literary Criticism. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Introduction: āThe dirt doesnāt get any worseā: The Alliance of Camp and Dirt
- PART I Upside ā Downside ā Upside Campās Dialectic of Dirt and Beauty
- 1 The Jewel in the Gutter: Camp and the Incorporation of Dirt
- 2 Camp Conquests: Deconstructing the Sublime in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
- 3 āThe odd and gory things in lifeā: Roy Razā Music Videos and Camp Aesthetics
- 4 Camp as a Critical Strategy in And the Spring Comes
- PART II Trash, Dirt and Leftovers: The Oscillations of Matter
- 5 The āAvailableā Joe Brainard
- 6 Dirty Sound: The Camp Materialism of Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls
- 7 Camping Out in the Detritus of the 1960s Queer Underground: The āMoldyā Fantasies of Jack Smith
- 8 A Camp Fairy Tale: The Dirty Class of John Watersā Desperate Living
- 9 Malapropos Desires: The Cinematic Oikos of Grey Gardens
- PART III Debris of the Past
- 10 Camp Patina: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Transvestism and GrĆ¼nderzeit Furniture
- 11 Camping Indigeneity: The Queer Politics of Kent Monkman
- 12 Innocence Unprotected: Camp in Yugoslavian Cinema
- Notes on Contributors
- Index