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Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess

Women, Camp, and Popular Culture: Serious Excess

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Availability:In StockContributor:Katrin HornPublish date:8/31/2018Pages:264
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9783319878850ISBN-10:3319878859UPC:9783319878850Book Category:Social Science, MusicBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Gender StudiesSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.331Product ID:SCTC6BTX2R
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
Languages:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9783319878850ISBN-10:3319878859UPC:9783319878850Book Category:Social Science, MusicBook Subcategory:Popular Culture, Gender StudiesSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.58 inchesWeight:0.331Product ID:SCTC6BTX2R

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.


Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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Softcover Repri Edition

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Katrin Horn

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Katrin Horn

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