{"product_id":"camp-fabio-cleto-9780472067220","title":"Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject--A Reader","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis groundbreaking collection addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage. Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp written by leading intellectuals in cultural studies, lesbian and gay studies and queer theory, this critical anthology both \"queers\" camp as an issue and offers an excellent key to rethinking the history, theory, and practice of camp.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe anthology is divided into five thematic\/historical sections: Tasting It; Flaunting the Closet; Gender, and Other Spectacles; Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy; and The Queer Issue. These groupings help the reader situate the critical debates around the subject. Fabio Cleto's introduction brings new theoretical insights to the subject of camp while tracing its history as an object of intellectual and cultural critique and analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA comprehensive bibliography that traces the earliest use of the word 'camp' to the present completes this unique and exciting volume.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Is 'camp' a kind of irony, an effect of one's historic vantage point, an art form or an elitist aesthetic? ... From landmark early works by Christopher Isherwood and Susan Sontag to influential contemporary pieces by Esther Newton, Andrew Ross and Judith Butler, this anthology encapsulates the philosophical discussion of this slippery postmodern concept.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003cbr\u003e ​\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"As an object of critical inquiry, camp has proven notoriously difficult to define. Fabio Cleto takes this difficulty as his point of departure in the most recent anthology of a growing body of scholarly literature on the topic...Cleto resists defining camp [but] does not abandon the task of framing, in a coherent but flexible way, camp as a problematic.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eSemiotica\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Fabio Cleto's collection variously associates 'camp' with the 1960s, aestheticism, androgyny, cross-dressing, the cultural figure of the dandy, decadence, drag, exaggeration, kitsch, parody, pastiche, postmodernism, the sentimental, and the transvestite... The essayists in \u003ci\u003eCamp\u003c\/i\u003e disagree freely and fiercely over definitions. This is to be expected in a queer reader, one whose contributors endeavor to 'read across' the meanings of camp.\" \u003cbr\u003e --\u003ci\u003eThe Gay \u0026amp; Lesbian Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Fabio Cleto\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0472067222\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780472067220\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Michigan Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/02\/1999\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 544\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 2.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.66h x 6.66w x 1.16d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/1999 pg. 71","brand":"Fabio Cleto","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43943336018175,"sku":"9780472067220","price":34.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_8a4f6717-6806-4fb5-b191-2f4d9897df90.jpg?v=1681497542","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/camp-fabio-cleto-9780472067220","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}