By Matthew Tinkcom
ISBN-10: 0822328623
ISBN-13: 9780822328629
ISBN-10: 0822328895
ISBN-13: 9780822328896
With a distinct emphasis at the tensions among low and high types of tradition and among reliable and undesirable style, Matthew Tinkcom bargains a brand new imaginative and prescient of queer politics and aesthetics that's significantly engaged with Marxist theories of capitalist construction. He argues that camp—while embracing the inexpensive, the scorned, the gaudy, the bland, and what Warhol referred to as “the leftovers” of creative production—is a style of highbrow creation and a serious philosophy of modernity up to it's an expression of a dissident sex/gender distinction. From Minnelli’s musicals and the “everyday glamour” of Warhol’s movies to Anger’s experimental movies and Waters’s “trash aesthetic,” Tinkcom demonstrates how camp allowed those homosexual males to layout their very own dating to exertions and to background in a fashion that secure them from censure at the same time they struggled to forge a task for themselves inside of a process of “value” that didn't realize them.
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