{"title":"Camp Cinema and the Queer Experience","authors":"G. Lamb","doi":"10.1386/fm_00257_1","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Camp is a queer sensibility which has recently begun to enter the mainstream. By viewing a case study of several key camp films of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, it is possible to chronicle its radicalism, and its gradual co-optation by the straight gaze. Camp, while at times reductive, has served to mirror and affirm the vibrancy of the queer experience, making an understanding of its roots essential.","PeriodicalId":272564,"journal":{"name":"Film Matters","volume":"443 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Film Matters","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1386/fm_00257_1","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Camp is a queer sensibility which has recently begun to enter the mainstream. By viewing a case study of several key camp films of the twentieth and early twenty-first century, it is possible to chronicle its radicalism, and its gradual co-optation by the straight gaze. Camp, while at times reductive, has served to mirror and affirm the vibrancy of the queer experience, making an understanding of its roots essential.