Michael Zara - Elevating Camp One Letter at a Time
March 9, 2021| In 1909, the Oxford English Dictionary first defined the term “camp” as “ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical; effeminate or homosexual behavior” and from that definition on, we have delivered. Camp has been used to comment on society’s idea of what high art, taste, and culture is by disrupting it with high energy and overblown presentations, often approaching the boundary of bad taste with always smart humor. The successful camp is true camp, and bad camp is just kitsch. For example: Lady Gaga is camp, the movie Showgirls is kitsch. Fighting the goo...
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