Lecture Five: Camp
The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert (Stephan Elliott 1994)
Some suggested reading
- Babuscio, Jack (1978) 'The Cinema of Camp, aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility'
In Fabio Cleto (Ed) (1999)
Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 117-135
- Bergling, Tim (2001)
Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior. New York: Harrington Park Press
- Booth, Mark (1983) 'Campe-Toi! On the Origins and Definitions of Camp',
in Fabio Cleto (Ed) (1999)
Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 66-79
- Booth, Mark (1983)
Camp. London: Quartet
- Bourne, Stephen (1996)
Brief Encounters: Lesbians and Gays in British Cinema 1930-1971.
London: Cassell
- Bergling, Tim (2001)
Sissyphobia: Gay Men and Effeminate Behavior. New York: Harrington Park Press
- Bergman, David (1994)
Camp Grounds: Style and Homosexuality. Amherst, MA: University of Massachusetts Press
- Cleto, Fabio (Ed) (1999)
Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press
- Clum, John M. (2002)
He's All Man: Learning Masculinity, Gayness, and Love from American Movies.
London: Palgrave
- Cohan, Steven (2005)
Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
- Cohan, Steven & Ina Rae Hark (Eds.) (1993)
Screening the Male. London: Routledge
- Core, Philip (1984)
Camp: The Lie That Tells The Truth. London: Plexus
- Craig, Steve (Ed.) (1992)
Men, Masculinity and the Media. Newbury Park, CA: Sage
- Dixon, Wheeler Winston (2003)
Straight: Constructions of Heterosexuality in the Cinema.
(Suny Series, Cultural Studies in Cinema/Video). New York: State University of New York Press
- Dyer, Richard (Ed.) (1977)
Gays and Film. London: British Film Institute
- Dyer, Richard (1990)
Now You See It: Studies on Lesbian and Gay Film. London: Routledge
- Dyer, Richard (1993)
The Matter of Images: Essays on Representation. London: Routledge
- Greenberg, David F. (1988)
The Construction of Homosexuality. Chicago, IL: University of Chicago Press
- Isherwood, Christopher (1954/1999)
The World in the Evening.;
also in Fabio Cleto (Ed) (1999)
Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 49-52
- Mellen, Joan (1978)
Big Bad Wolves: Masculinity in the American Film.
London: Elm Tree
- Meyer, Moe (1994)
The Politics and Poetics of Camp. London: Routledge
- Munday, Rod (2005)
'The Role of Contemporary Cinema in Maintaining Heteronormativity'
[WWW document] URL
http://users.aber.ac.uk/dgc/media/Students/ram0210/ram0210.html (student essay)
- Murray, Raymond (1998)
Images in the Dark: An Encyclopedia of Gay and Lesbian Film and Video. London: Titan
- Reuter, Donald F. (2004)
Fabulous: A Loving, Luscious and Lighthearted Look at Film from the Gay Perspective. New York: Broadway Books
- Reynolds, Robert (2002)
From Camp to Queer: Remaking the Australian Homosexual. Melbourne: Melbourne University Press
- Richardson, Diane (1996) 'Heterosexuality and Social Theory'. In Diane Richardson (Ed)
Theorizing Heterosexuality: Telling it Straight. Buckingham: Open University Press, pp. 1-20
- Robertson, Pamela (1996)
Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna. London: Tauris
- Roen, Paul (1994)
High Camp: A Gay Guide to Camp and Cult Films. San Francisco, CA: Leyland
- Russo, Vito (1987)
The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies.
New York: HarperCollins
- Sontag, Susan (1964) Notes on Camp. In Susan Sontag (1966/1994)
Against Interpretation. New York: Vintage;
also in Fabio Cleto (Ed) (1999)
Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 53-65;
available online [WWW document] URL
http://www.georgetown.edu/faculty/irvinem/theory/Sontag-NotesOnCamp-1964.html
- Steinberg, Deborah Lynn, Debbie Epstein & Richard Johnson (Eds) (1997)
Border Patrols: Policing the Boundaries of Heterosexuality. London: Cassell
- Tinkcom, Matthew (2002)
Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, Cinema. Durham, NC: Duke University Press
Note: Treat with extreme caution sources labelled with this symbol!
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