"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.
| ISBN: | 9780367886905 |
| Publication date: | 10th December 2019 |
| Author: | Ingrid HotzDavies |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 202 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies |
| Genres: |
Gender studies, gender groups Cultural studies LGBTQ+ Studies / topics Popular culture Media studies |
"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.
The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics features in the following genres: Gender studies, gender groups, Cultural studies, LGBTQ+ Studies / topics, Popular culture, Media studies
The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics was written by Ingrid HotzDavies and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis Ltd
The Dark Side of Camp Aesthetics has 202 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies series
£40.49