Camp grounds : style and homosexuality /
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| Imprint: | Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c1993. |
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| Description: | ix, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1562660 |
| Summary: | The concept of camp has never been easy to define. Derived from the French verb camper (to pose) it has been variously interpreted as a style that favours exaggeration, an ironic attitude toward the cultural mainstream and a form of aestheticism that celebrates artifice over beauty. At the same time, camp has been long associated with homosexual culture, or at least with a self-conscious eroticism that questions traditional gender constructions. |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 300 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0870238779 0870238787 |