Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-185) and index.
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.
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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.
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Making camp.
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Popular culture-- United States.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE-- Public Policy-- Cultural Policy.