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Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess

Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess

Hardcover

General Gender StudiesGeneral MusicGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3319648454
ISBN13: 9783319648453
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: Nov 24 2017
Pages: 264
Weight: 1.06
Height: 0.69 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
Provides an overview over the politics of camp across different formats in contemporary media landscape

Proposes a new defintion of camp as detached attachment to account for the strategy's unique combination of critical distance and affective involvement

Investigates the uses of camp in popular culture as a form of parodic intervention by women

Features 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 effects

Ascertains camp's value in countering recent media trends such as lesbian chic and postfeminism

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