Women, Camp, and Popular Culture

Provides an overview over the politics of camp across different formats in contemporary media landscapeProposes a new defintion of camp as detached attachment to account for the strategy's unique combination of critical distance and affective involvementInvestigates the uses of camp in popular culture as a form of parodic intervention by womenFeatures detailed analysis not only of the visual aspects of Lady Gaga's music videos but connects these to her live performances and the use of voice for queer effectsAscertains camp's value in countering recent media trends such as lesbian chic and postfeminism

Autorentext

Katrin Horn is a postdoctoral fellow in American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. She is co-editor of Stimme, Kultur, Identität (2015) and author of several articles on US American popular music and television.

Inhalt

1. Beyond Gay Men and After the Closet: Camp's New Politics and Pleasures.- 2. The History and Theory of Camp. I. Stonewall, Sontag, 'Sissies,' Sirk. II. Camp's Double Coding: Detachment / Attachment.- 3. The Great Dyke Rewrite Lesbian Camp on the Big Screen. I. New Queer Cinema. II. Lesbian Chic. III. Girls Gone Camping But I'm a Cheerleader and D.E.B.S.. IV. Subtext to Sincerity.- 4. TV in/vs. Postfeminism Feminist Camp in 30 Rock. I. Contemporary Sitcoms and Meta-Reflection. II. Legacy of the Feminist Sitcom. III. Postfeminism in US (Media) Culture. IV. 30 Rock's Divergences in Comic Format and Narrative Formula. V. I want to go to there! The Camp Routes of 30 Rock's Leading Ladies. VI. A Sitcom's Swan Song.- 5. Taking Pop Seriously: Lady Gaga as Camp. I. Gaga for Pop's Giants Stars, Divas and the Intimacy of Pop. II. Internet Killed the Video Star Narrating Metareferentiality across Media. III. Followthe Glitter Way The Monster Ball and Camp Live in Concert. IV. Grotesquely Serious.- 6. Camp: A New, More Complex Relation to the Serious. <p