Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess

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

Author: Katrin Horn

Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

Publication Date: Nov 24, 2017

Number of Pages: 264 pages

Binding: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 3319648454

ISBN-13: 9783319648453