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Gone with the Wind an inspiration for the American avant-garde? Mickey Mouse a crucial source for the development of cutting-edge intellectual and aesthetic ideas? As Greg Taylor shows in this witty and provocative book, the idea is not so far-fetched. One of the first-ever studies of American film criticism, Artists in the Audience shows that film critics, beginning in the 1940s, turned to the movies as raw material to be molded into a more radical modernism than that offered by any other contemporary artists or thinkers. In doing so, they offered readers a vanguard alternative that reshaped postwar American culture: nonaesthetic mass culture reconceived and refashioned into rich, personally relevant art by the attuned, creative spectator.

Camp (Style) --- Motion pictures --- Film criticism --- Aesthetics. --- History.

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"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 favors 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.The sixteen essays on camp included in this book explore further the relationship between style and homosexuality, showing how camp has made its way into every aspect of our cultural lives: theater, popular music, opera, film, and literature. Beginning with an overview of what camp is, where it came from, and how it operates, the chapter addresses topics ranging from the high camp of Whitman and Proust to the low camp of drag queen culture and gay fanzines. Together they carry forward a conversation that began more than twenty-five years ago, before Stonewall and AIDS, when Susan Sontag published her memorable Notes on Camp." --

Homosexuality and literature --- Gays' writings --- History and criticism --- Lifestyles --- Homosexuality and literature. --- Lifestyles. --- Camp (Style) --- History and criticism. --- Camp (Style). --- Gay peoples' writings

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Rather than seeing camp as a mode of reception, a way of reading straight popular culture, Tinkcom sees it as an intentional product of gay men within the film industry.

Homosexuality and motion pictures. --- Gay motion picture producers and directors --- Camp (Style)

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This collection of essays provides the first in-depth examination of camp as it relates to a wide variety of twentieth and twenty-first century music and musical performances. Located at the convergence of popular and queer musicology, the book provides new research into camp's presence, techniques, discourses, and potential meanings across a broad spectrum of musical genres, including: musical theatre, classical music, film music, opera, instrumental music, the Broadway musical, rock, pop, hip-hop, and Christmas carols. This significant contribution to the field of camp studies investigates why and how music has served as an expressive and political vehicle for both the aesthetic characteristics and the receptive modes that have been associated with camp throughout twentieth and twenty-first-century culture.

Homosexuality and music. --- Music --- Camp (Style) in music. --- Style, Musical --- Hermeneutics (Music) --- Musical aesthetics --- Aesthetics --- Music theory --- Music and homosexuality --- Philosophy and aesthetics. --- Philosophy

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Literary semiotics --- Thematology --- Spanish-American literature --- Sociology of culture --- anno 1900-1999 --- Argentine literature --- Camp (Style) --- Kitsch --- Parody. --- Popular culture --- Postmodernism (Literature) --- Sex role in literature. --- History and criticism. --- Camp (Style). --- Parody --- Sex role in literature --- Literary movements --- Literature, Modern --- Modernism (Literature) --- Post-postmodernism (Literature) --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Travesty --- Satire --- Burlesque (Literature) --- Caricature --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism