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Camp style LGBT Info Fandom Search This wiki All wikis nbsp Sign In Don t have an account Register Project Wiki Pages Add new page Community Recent blog posts Forum Explore Changes Random Videos Images in Culture Terms English Deutsch Edit source History Talk Share Campy redirects here For other uses see disambiguation is aesthetic which something has appeal because of its bad taste or ironic value When the term first appeared it was used to refer ostentatious exaggerated affected theatrical effeminate homosexual behaviour By mid- s defined as banality artifice mediocrity ostentation so extreme perversely sophisticated American writer Susan Sontag’s essay Notes on ‘Camp’ emphasised frivolity na ve middle-class pretentiousness and shocking excess key elements films were popularized by filmmaker John Waters including Hairspray Polyester Celebrities that are associated with camp personas include drag queens performers such Dame Edna Divine Glen Milstead RuPaul Boy George Liberace As part anti-academic defense popular culture came popularity widespread adoption postmodern views art Contents Origins development Components Attitude Humor allusion Drag Contemporary Television Film Fashions International aspects Literature Analysis See also Further reading References External links edit derives from French slang se camper meaning pose fashion The OED gives print citation pertaining characteristic homosexuals So a noun mannerisms et cetera cf quot man exhibiting Per this sense etymologically obscure According theorist Samuel R Delany originally developed practice female impersonators prostitutes following military encampments sexually service soldiers Later evolved into general description choices behavior working-class men Finally made mainstream adjectivised Sontag her landmark below rise postmodernism common perspective aesthetics not identified any specific group attitude distinctive factor pre-Stonewall gay male communities where dominant cultural pattern Altman argues originated acceptance gayness effeminacy needed Two components feminine performances swish With featuring extensive use superlatives being impersonation became extended all things over top Hollywood version Carmen Miranda It concept adopted literary critics conceptual array ‘sixties Moe Meyer still defines queer parody You can’t do purpose – been start embraced anti-Academic theorists for explicit clearly marginalized forms claims legitimacy dependent opposition status quo no aspiration timelessness but rather lives hypocrisy doesn’t present basic values precisely confronts what perceives inconsistencies show how norm socially constructed rebellious utilisation critical concepts formulated modernist sociologist Theodor Adorno who radically opposed kind consumerism endorsed analysis at same time big joke takes normally social object phrase does very acute then presents humorously performance meant be A person campy generalization they intentionally making fun manipulating Though it’s serious done people willing make out themselves prove point It’s about pretentious contentious heterodox bouleversement wrapped up tongue-in-cheek elicits shock offensive Another dishing conversational retorts vicious putdowns malicious gossip showing disrespect entertainment industry called chit chat File Sfdk bio lu jpg Fudgie Frottage San Francisco underground performer producer world’s longest running king contest displays masculinity encouraged rewarded occasionally consists apparel ranging slight make-up few garments typically hats gloves high heels total getup complete wigs gowns jewellery full case kings male-impersonators opposite true often involves traditional sexuality shows CHiPs Batman Gilligan’s Island Fantasy enjoyed their now interpreted Some these producers TV soap operas especially those air primetime considered over-the-top Dynasty Dallas Mentos television commercials during cult due Eurotrash humour ESPN Classic Cheap Seats features two Generation-X real-life brothers humorous observations while watching televised sporting events had featured ABC’s Wide World Sports Examples sport attempted combine ballet skiing Harlem Globetrotters putting gym maximum security prison small-time professional wrestling roller derby ABC After School Specials tackled topics drug teen sex example educational turn Comedy Central Strangers Candy starring comedienne Amy Sedaris spoof specials Monty Python sketch Episode Square-Bashing British Army’s nd Armoured Division Military Swanning About Precision Drill unit unison sit-com Office one Tim Canterbury’s pranks Gareth Keenan includes pun word Movie versions nature throughout movies Huston’s Beat Devil Humphrey Bogart film noir send-up Filmmaker directed Pink Flamingos Female Trouble Desperate Living Dirty Shame Cecil B Demented Todd Solondz music illustrate absurdity bourgeois suburban existence Solondz’s Welcome Dollhouse eleven-year-old girl protagonist kisses boy Debbie Gibson’s Lost Your Eyes plays Fisher-Price tape recorder Educational industrial form entire sub-genre most famous much-spoofed Duck Cover anthropomorphic cartoon turtle explains can survive nuclear attack hiding under school desk counterpart Protect Survive could seen kitsch even though chilling watch Many Public Information Films gained Charley Says series Retro-camp modern hipsters employing styles sake humor Yard decorations some parts rural America examples sometimes displayed expressions classic yard ornament pink plastic flamingo globe garden gnome wooden cut-out fat lady bending statue small black holding lantern lawn jockey ceramic statues white-tailed deer prevalent Carvel chain soft-serve ice cream stores low-budget ice-cream cakes Cookie Puss Whale South Border roadside attraction North Carolina-South Carolina border faux-Mexican theme known billboards stretching along Interstate Washington D C Florida Branson Missouri tourist destination pseudo-patriotic otherwise jingoistic themes overtones messages gambling meccas Las Vegas Reno Nevada architecture casinos hotels recent years Wisconsin Dells reputation waterparks waterpark resorts motel swimming pools foam-and-fibreglass sculptures dolphins killer whales David Shankbone regularly capitalizes through movie cameo appearances celebrities although tend possess traits unintentionally capitalize Old Navy clothing Bowie Elvira Pee-wee Herman Elton Freddie Mercury Richard Simmons icons Judy Garland Liza Minnelli Bette Midler Joan Rivers Video games characters Him Powerpuff Girls Doctor N Gin Crash Bandicoot Agent Pleakley Lilo amp Stitch Reni Wassulmaier Grand Theft Auto Vice City Stories Bridget Guilty Gear terms interchangeably both may relate literature carries However refers specifically proper whereas mode Thus consume however observed always way consuming performing quotation marks Mika Glastonbury Pop singer renowned his camp-styled Thomas Hine period US During many Americans much more money spend exercised poor lack sophistication education experience UK adjective stereotypical view Although applies describe openly promotes fact he outwardly garish eccentric strong element so-called gay-icons objects chosen People like Kylie Minogue Inman Lawrence Llewelyn Bowen Lulu Graham Norton Lesley Joseph Ruby Wax Dale Winton Cilla Black Rick Astley Never Gonna Give Up hall theatre tradition pantomime Australian opera director Barrie Kosky interpreting works Western canon Shakespeare Wagner Moli re Seneca Kafka recently September hour production Sydney Theatre Company Echo based Ovid’s Metamorphoses Euripides’ Bacchae act Song Phaeton instance goddess Juno highly stylised Marlene Dietrich musical arrangements feature Noel Coward Cole Porter effectively employed satirise pretensions manners vacuity Australia middle class suggestive Everage employs Chorus girls boys whereabouts leave Goddess Diana begins rehearse dance routine muttering herself broad accent Mum says I if want Idol Gang’s Here trailer post-World War II marginally mentioned Christopher Isherwood’s novel Evening comments you don’t take seriously You’re you’re expressing what’s basically elegance cited included actress Miranda’s tutti frutti Science fiction Mark Booth’s book oneself committed marginal commitment greater than merits He discerns carefully between genuine fads fancies intrinsically display artificiality stylisation theatricality naivety sexual ambiguity tackiness stylishness portray thus them considers definition problematical lacks distinction challenge receive political when minorities appropriate ridicule images activism multiculturalism New Left best liberation movement confront society own preconceptions historicity positive portrayal secret agent appears Man M P paradoxically yet physically tough actresses Mae West Crawford important influence feminist consciousness exaggerating certain stereotyped femininity fragility open emotionality moodiness undermine credibility multiculturalist stance studies therefore Political saw means maintaining misdirecting workers away cause oppression capitalist system Also camp’s ephemerality deemed engender unthinking relies novelty Aside Frankfurt argument faces criticism perspectives obvious just excuse quality work allows tacky vulgar recognised valid doing celebrates trivial superficial content yuck Camp-style allow prejudices perpetuated thinly veiling irony argue misogynistic women seem ridiculous perpetuate harmful stereotypes posits equivalent white minstrel claim comedians Larry Grayson Kenny Everett Duncan Norvelle Julian Clary pander homophobia undergone softening original subversive tone little condescending recognition sensibility Mainstream comic books Westerns become standard subjects academic normalisation outrageous Vanguardist movements led notion lost usefulness discourse queen Hipster contemporary subculture Mystery Theater Popular Johnny Sokko And His Flying Robot Series Adam Edward Wood Jr Replicas Michelangelo’s Barbarella 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