Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess

Horn, Katrin

This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for women’s engagement with contemporary popular culture as exemplified by 30 Rock or Lady Gaga. In detailed analyses of lesbian cinema, postfeminist TV, and popular music, the book offers a novel take on its subject. It defines camp as a unique mode of detached attachment, which builds on affective intensity and emotional investment, while strongly encouraging a critical edge.

EAN

9783319878850

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan

Published

31 August 2018

Pages

264