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Camp is an intentionally, over the top form of performance that trivializes the
content for form. It is a parody of society in an over the top offensive way. T
is a part of gay subculture, and it is a result of their repression. Dyer says that
camp originates from the adaptability of gay people. The reason style is their
expertise is because they mastered it to hide in plain view. It is also their way
Dyer and Babuscio say that Camp is the one thing that expresses and
confirms being a gay man, in a world that expresses and confirms the
rightness of heterosexuality.
masculine/feminine.”
argues that Camp humor relies n involvement, and being able to identify with
Camp originates from the gay perception that gender is socially constructed,
determined.
Camp pushes a poorly done form to the extent that its badness is what the
work is about.(trash)
Camp as parody has an ability to expose what people in power would like to
Dyer says camp is a part of gay culture since it was a way for gay people to
self protection and thorns in the flesh of straight society are the pluses of
camp
It is a way of prising the form of something away from its content, of reveling
Sontag suggests that camp is the way gay people have sought to make an
Camp does not merely consist of the disproportion of form and content, but
also in the creation of an attitude by which the whole relation can be seen
Relation between camp and kitsch: Kitsch is meant to be taken at face value,