A recent and very deliberately camp production The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde–the dedicatee of Sontag’s “Notes”–will be streaming at the Byre on… Read More »Byre Theatre: The Importance of Being Earnest (National Theatre Live)
Being able to describe the term ‘camp’ has proved an arduous task for a multitude of scholars. Following Susan Sontag’s seminal essay Notes on Camp, the… Read More »RuPaul’s Gay Sensibility – Rebeca Ravara
In her now iconic essay ‘Notes on Camp’ Susan Sontag explores the sensibility of ‘Camp’ and the ‘affinity and overlap’ between homosexuality and ‘Camp.’ The… Read More »Well If it sounds Camp and looks Camp then it’s probably Camp.
“All Camp objects, and persons, contain a large element of artifice. Nothing in nature can be campy …. Rural Camp is still man-made, and most… Read More »You Better Hold On Tight, Spider Monkey. (Sontag’s Notes on Camp)
Babuscio explains that there are four key features of camp: irony, aestheticism, theatricality and humor. Irony represents “any highly incongruous contrast between an individual or… Read More »‘Mrs Coleman’ and camp
According to Susan Sontag, the camp sensibility is a kind of aesthetic attitude that ‘revels’ in artifice, exaggeration and the stylisation of cultural artefacts. I… Read More »Noughties Camp: Scooby Doo (2002)
Ross’ more holistic reading highlights what I think is a really interesting complication in the production and consumption of camp: the confrontation of aristocratic sensibility… Read More »our camp in front of them…
In her definitions of Camp, Sontag states that ‘Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a “lamp”; not a woman, but… Read More »You’re a very famous actor. Or used to be. Now you do dog food commercials. (Susan Sontag and Paddington 2)
There is often a misconception that ‘camp’ is something that is so bad its good; a sense of too much, too far, or over the… Read More »The Picture of 26 Sarah Snooks
Sontag considers Camp a sensibility reveling in the unnatural and the theatrical, rather than the natural and the sincere. The concepts of exaggeration, stylization, and… Read More »Susan Sontag and The Californians