Blog Post 5 (due Monday March 6 by 5 PM)

At the time of its release, The Rocky Horror Picture Show (Jim Sharman, 1975, USA) was the epitome of Sontag’s depiction of Camp. The film… Read More »How Camp is The Rocky Horror Picture Show today?- Hana El Hilaly

Susan Sontag’s notion that “many of the objects prized by Camp taste are old-fashioned” because “the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment… Read More »Raya Milushev – The timelessness of Camp

Susan Sontag’s proclamation that: ‘All Camp objects, and persons contain a large element of artifice. Nothing in nature can be campy…’ (Sontag, p.277) made me… Read More »Camping Outback: camp and nature in Priscilla: Queen of the Desert

Babuscio, in his paper Camp and the Gay Sensibility, highlights the notion that camp comedy asserts a certain gay sensibility in its development of ironical humour.… Read More »Francis Yamamoto – Babuscio, Camp Irony, and La Cage aux Folles

When defining the ironic nature of camp, Babuscio highlights that one of the “incongruous contrasts” that can be found in film is “that of youth/… Read More »Emily Moreland – Camp and Tangled’s Mother Gothel

I was most interesting in Babuscio’s explanation of the relationship between the gay sensibility and camp and the four features consistent in camp (irony, aestheticism,… Read More »Nicholas DiCorpo – Camp and Cameron Tucker from Modern Family

Camp as an attitude celebrating style over substance is a concept director Baz Luhrmann seems to live and die by in his films. Romeo +… Read More »Isabel Burney – Baz Luhrmann’s Camp Cinema

Susan Sontag wrote a number of compelling ideas about the origin and nature of Camp. In addressing just a few of these ideas, I hope… Read More »Kevin Landers-WKUK and Camp