The dark side of camp aesthetics

Autor(en)

Georg Vogt, Ingrid Hotz-Davies, Franziska Bergmann

Abstrakt

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

Organisation(en)

Institut für Theater-, Film- und Medienwissenschaft

Externe Organisation(en)

Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen, Universität Trier

Anzahl der Seiten

202

Publikationsdatum

2018

Peer-reviewed

Ja

ÖFOS 2012

602005 Amerikanistik, 604011 Filmwissenschaft, 605002 Kulturgeschichte, 602008 Anglistik

Schlagwörter

Link zum Portal

https://ucris.univie.ac.at/portal/de/publications/the-dark-side-of-camp-aesthetics(55a7d37e-5174-4bcb-b0e3-3197800496a6).html