Women, Camp, and Popular Culture Serious Excess Taschenbuch von Katrin Horn Räumungsverkauf

This innovative study claims camp as a critical, yet pleasurable strategy for women¿s 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. Über den Autor

Katrin Horn is a postdoctoral fellow in American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. She is co-editor of Stimme, Kultur, Identität(2015) and author of several articles on US American popular music and television.

Zusammenfassung

Provides an overview over the politics of camp across different formats in contemporary media landscape

Proposes a new defintion of camp as detached attachment to account for the strategy’s unique combination of critical distance and affective involvement

Investigates the uses of camp in popular culture as a form of parodic intervention by women

Features detailed analysis not only of the visual aspects of Lady Gaga’s music videos but connects these to her live performances and the use of voice for queer effects

Ascertains camp’s value in countering recent media trends such as lesbian chic and postfeminism

Includes supplementary material: […]