Sairaa Bains – Jennifer’s Body as Camp Horror
Jack Babuscio argues in his ‘Camp and the Gay Sensibility’ that camp is “exaggerated” and when the stress on style is outrageous or too much,… Read More »Sairaa Bains – Jennifer’s Body as Camp Horror
Sontag / Babuscio / Hatch
Jack Babuscio argues in his ‘Camp and the Gay Sensibility’ that camp is “exaggerated” and when the stress on style is outrageous or too much,… Read More »Sairaa Bains – Jennifer’s Body as Camp Horror
As a purveyor of camp, I really appreciated the film for this week for the absolute festival that it is. I was struck, in particular,… Read More »Kas Schroeder – The Gay Deceivers and Camp
I was struck by Sontag’s notes on Camp as “bad art”, as it immediately made me think of student filmmaking. Films made by students are… Read More »Ash Johann Curry-Machado | Blog 5 – The Dirties and the Camp of Student Filmmaking
Early in his chapter about “Camp and the Gay Sensibility,” Jack Babuscio discusses the concept of irony as “any highly incongruous contrast between an individual… Read More »Caroline Vandis: The Incongruity of Masculine/Feminine
The first example that comes to my mind when I read the word camp is the horror hostess Elvira, the character played by Cassandra Peterson, which gained… Read More »Prisca Spagnol – Camp and Elvira: Mistress of the Dark