Description
With a special emphasis on the tensions between high and low forms of culture and between good and bad taste, Matthew Tinkcom offers a new vision of queer politics and aesthetics that is critically engaged with Marxist theories of capitalist production. He argues that camp-while embracing the cheap, the scorned, the gaudy, the tasteless, and what Warhol called "the leftovers" of artistic production-is a mode of intellectual production and a critical philosophy of modernity as much as it is an expression of a dissident sex/gender difference. From Minnelli's musicals and the "everyday glamour" of Warhol's films to Anger's experimental films and Waters's "trash aesthetic," Tinkcom demonstrates how camp allowed these gay men to design their own relationship to labor and to history in a way that protected them from censure even as they struggled to forge a role for themselves within a system of "value" that failed to recognize them.
About the Author
Matthew Tinkcom is Assistant Professor of English and of Communication, Culture, and Technology at Georgetown University.
Reviews
"A brilliant, innovative study of camp that exceeds the terms in which this topic traditionally has been conceived. The result is a reformulation of camp as queer industrial labor, from the perspective of the production as well as the reception of that work. Anyone working on camp will hereafter have to reckon with this book."-Steven Cohan, author of Masked Men: Masculinity and the Movies in the Fifties
Book Information
ISBN 9780822328896
Author Matthew Tinkcom
Format Paperback
Page Count 240
Imprint Duke University Press
Publisher Duke University Press
Series Series Q
Weight(grams) 381g