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Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject

CAMP: QUEER AESTHETICS AND THE PERFORMING SUBJECT .A

TRIANGULATIONS Lesbian/Gay/Queer

Theater/Drama/Performance

Series Editors Jill Dolan, The Graduate School and University Center,

A READER

City University of New York David Roman, University of Southern California Jennifer Brody, University of California, Riverside Editorial Board

John Cl urn, Duke University

Holly Hughes, plapvright and performance artist, New York City David Drake, writer, director, actor, New York City

Peggy Phelan, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Alberta Sandoval, Mount Holyoke College David Savran, Brown University

Alisa Solomon, Baruch College, City U11iversity of New York

Edited by Fabio Cleto

Paula Vogel, Brown University Robert Vorlicky, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University Stacy Wolf, George Washington University Yvonne Yarbro-Bejarano, Stanford University

Chay Yew, playwrigbt and director, Los Angeles

Titles in the series:

Tony Kushner in Conversation Edited by Robert Vorlicky

Passing Performances: Queer Readings of Leading Players in American Theater History Edited by Robert A. Schanke and Kim Marra

WhenRomeo Was a Woman: Charlotte Cushman and Her Circle of Female Spectators by Lisa Merrill

Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subiect ' edited by Fabio Cleto

Ann Arbor

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CONTENTS

Acknowledgements

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Posology (or, How to Read a Reader) Copyright© selection and editorial material, Fabio Cleto 1999 All rights reserved Published in the United States of America by The University of Michigan Press 2002

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Introduction: Queering the Camp

Section I:

No part of this publication may be reproduced, srored in a retrieval system, or rransmiaed in any form or by any means, elecrro11ic, mechanical, or

Tasting it

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Introduction

otherwise, without the written permission of the publisher.

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A CIP record for this book is available from the British Library.

Christopher Isherwood

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From The World in the Evening

Library of Congress Catalogmg-in-Publication data applied for

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Susan Sontag

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Mark Booth

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'Notes on "Camp"'

ISBN 0-472-09772-9 (cloth) 0-472-06722-2 (pbk.)

'Campe-toi!: On the Origins and

Published in Great Britain by Edin bu rgh Universiry Press The right of the contributors to be identified as aurhors of this work has been

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Definitions of Camp' 4

asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988.

Section II:

Philip Core

From Camp: The Lie That Tells

The Truth

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Flaunting the Closet Introduction

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'Role Models' 6

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Richard Dyer 'It's Being So Camp as Keeps Us Going'

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Esther Newton

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Jack Babuscio The Cinema of Camp (aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility)'

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Andrew Britton 'For Interpretation: Notes against Camp'

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CONTENTS

CONTENTS 9

Mark Finch

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'Homosexual Signs (In Memory of Roland Barthes)'

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Harold Beaver

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Section V:

'Sex and Address in Dynasty'

Neil Bartlett 'Forgery'

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Sue-Ellen Case 'Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic'

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The Queer Issue Introduction

22 Juditb Butler

'From lnteriority to Gender Performatives'

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Carole-Anne Tyler

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Pamela Robertson

Introduction

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'Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity",

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Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick Relations of the Male Body'

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Johannes von Moltke 'Camping in the Art Closet: The Politics of Camp and Nation in German Film'

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From 'Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental

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'Boys Will Be Girls: Drag and Transvestic Fetishism' 369

and the Discourse of Camp' Section III: Gender, and Other Spectacles

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Caryl Flinn 'The Deaths of Camp'

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14 Jonathan Dollimore 'Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity'

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Linda Mizejewski 'Camp among the Swastikas: Isherwood, Sally Bowles, and "Good Heter Stuff'"

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'Genderfuck: The Law of the Dildo'

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Pamela Robertson 'What Makes the Feminist Camp?'

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June L. Reich

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George Piggford '"Who's That Girl?" Annie Lennox, Woolf's

Orlando, and Female Camp Androgyny'

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Section IV: Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy

Introduction 19

Andrew Ross

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Sasha Torres

'Uses of Camp' 'The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series'

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Matthew Tinkcom 'Warhol's Camp'

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Digging the Scene: A bibliography of secondary materials, 1869-1997

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Index of names

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