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Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna Paperback - 1996
by Pamela Robertson Wojcik
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"This is the most extensive--and the most subtle and complex--examination of the feminist 'angle' on camp I have seen."--Alexander Doty, author of "Making Things Perfectly Queer "and coeditor of "Out in Culture"
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- Title Guilty Pleasures: Feminist Camp from Mae West to Madonna
- Author Pamela Robertson Wojcik
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Pages 208
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Duke University Press, Durham
- Date 1996-03
- Illustrated Yes
- ISBN 9780822317487 / 0822317486
- Weight 0.76 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 5.91 x 0.63 in (23.37 x 15.01 x 1.60 cm)
- Reading level 1620
- Library of Congress subjects Women in motion pictures, Impersonation
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95045942
- Dewey Decimal Code 791.436
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- Publishers Weekly, 04/08/1996, Page 64
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Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 1996. ix, 195 pages, illustrations; 24 cm. Tight, clean copy. "'Camp,' Mae West told Playboy, 'is the kinda comedy where they imitate me.' But what was West doing, if not camp itself? Guilty Pleasures puts women back into the history of camp, a story long confined to gay male practice. Emphasizing the distinctive roles women have played as producers and consumers of camp, Pamela Robertson links her subject to feminist discussions of gender parody, performance, and spectatorship. Her book offers a heady tour of social and cultural criticism at its most interesting, and American culture at its most flamboyant. Robertson grounds her theoretical discussion of female performance and spectatorship in detailed studies of figures such as Mae West, Joan Crawford, and Madonna. She locates these figures in turn within a tradition of feminist camp--a female form of aestheticism related to masquerade and rooted in burlesque, parallel to but different from gay…
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