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Author Shugart, Helene A., 1966-

Title Making camp : rhetorics of transgression in U.S. popular culture / Helene A. Shugart and Catherine Egley Waggoner
Published Tuscaloosa : University of Alabama Press, ©2008

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Description 1 online resource (189 pages)
Series Rhetoric, culture, and social critique
Rhetoric, culture, and social critique.
Contents Introduction: trail map -- Camp grounds: histories and characters of camp -- Breaking camp: co-optation and critical logics -- Xena: camped crusader -- Karen Walker: drag hag -- Macy Gray: Venus in drag -- Gwen Stafani: Camp Vamp -- Conclusion: Camp sites
Summary Examines the rhetoric and conventions of "camp" in contemporary popular culture and the ways it both subverts and is co-opted by mainstream ideology and discourse, especially as it pertains to issues of gender and sexuality
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index
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Subject Popular culture -- United States.
Camp (Style)
camp (cultural movement)
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Camp (Style)
Popular culture
United States
Genre/Form Computer network resources
Form Electronic book
Author Waggoner, Catherine Egley, 1962-
LC no. 2007033572
ISBN 9780817380113
0817380116