Women, Camp, and Popular Culture Serious Excess [Hardcover]

This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for womens 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.

1. Beyond Gay Men and After the Closet: Camps New Politics and Pleasures.- 2.?The History and Theory of Camp.?I.? Stonewall, Sontag, Sissies, Sirk.?II. Camps 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 Im 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 Rocks Divergences in Comic Format and Narrative Formula.?V.?? I want to go to there! ? The Camp Routes of 30 Rocks Leading Ladies.?VI.? A Sitcoms Swan Song.- 5.?Taking Pop Seriously: Lady Gaga as Camp.?I.???? Gaga for Pops Giants  Stars, Divas and the Intimacy of Pop.?II.?? Internet Killed the Video Star ? Narrating Metareferentiality across Media.?III.? Follow the Glitter Way ? The Monster Ball and Camp Live in Concert.?IV.? Grotesquely Serious.- 6.?Camp: A New, More Complex Relation to the Serious.

Katrin Horn is a postdoctoral fellow in American Studies at FAU Erlangen-N?rnberg, Germany. She is co-editor of Stimme, Kultur, Identit?t (2015) and author of several articles on US Ameril1