Bruce E. Drushel is associate professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University.Brian M. Peters is tenured in the English Department at Champlain College St. Lambert.

Camp is not dead! This wonderful new volume explores its persistent effects on contemporary culture, from Dolly Parton to Madonna and from RuPaul’s Drag Race to House of 1000 Corpses. Drushel and Peters have assembled a collection of smart, witty, and accessible essays that explore how and why camp remains an important aspect of pop culture criticism even into the 21st century.

• ContentsIntroduction: Some Notes on “Notes”Brian M. Peters and Bruce E. DrushelPart I: Camp in LiteratureChapter 1: Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian “Sicko”Barbara Jane BrickmanChapter 2: Queer Ideology in the Novels of Joe Keenan Robert Kellerman Part II: Camp and CelebrityChapter 3: Authentic Artifice: Dolly Parton’s Negotiations of Sontag’s CampEmily Deering Crosby and Hannah LynnChapter 4: Diva Worship as a Queer Poetics of Waste in D. Gilson’s Brit LitChris Philpot Chapter 5: Camping in the Closet: Susan Sontag and the Construction of the Celebrity PersonaTim Cusack Part III: Camp on TelevisionChapter 6: Vicious Camp: Performance, Artifice, and IncongruityBruce E. Drushel Chapter 7: “Excuse My Beauty!”: Camp Referencing and Memory Activation on RuPaul’s Drag Race”Carl SchottmillerPart IV: Camp and PlaceChapter 8: Everything is Bigger in Texas: Camp and the Queerly Normal in Greater TunaElizabeth M.

Bruce E. Drushel is associate professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University.Brian M. Peters is tenured in the English Department at Champlain College St. Lambert.

Camp is not dead! This wonderful new volume explores its persistent effects on contemporary culture, from Dolly Parton to Madonna and from RuPaul’s Drag Race to House of 1000 Corpses. Drushel and Peters have assembled a collection of smart, witty, and accessible essays that explore how and why camp remains an important aspect of pop culture criticism even into the 21st century.

• ContentsIntroduction: Some Notes on “Notes”Brian M. Peters and Bruce E. DrushelPart I: Camp in LiteratureChapter 1: Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian “Sicko”Barbara Jane BrickmanChapter 2: Queer Ideology in the Novels of Joe Keenan Robert Kellerman Part II: Camp and CelebrityChapter 3: Authentic Artifice: Dolly Parton’s Negotiations of Sontag’s CampEmily Deering Crosby and Hannah LynnChapter 4: Diva Worship as a Queer Poetics of Waste in D. Gilson’s Brit LitChris Philpot Chapter 5: Camping in the Closet: Susan Sontag and the Construction of the Celebrity PersonaTim Cusack Part III: Camp on TelevisionChapter 6: Vicious Camp: Performance, Artifice, and IncongruityBruce E. Drushel Chapter 7: “Excuse My Beauty!”: Camp Referencing and Memory Activation on RuPaul’s Drag Race”Carl SchottmillerPart IV: Camp and PlaceChapter 8: Everything is Bigger in Texas: Camp and the Queerly Normal in Greater TunaElizabeth M.

Bruce E. Drushel is associate professor in the Department of Media, Journalism, and Film at Miami University.Brian M. Peters is tenured in the English Department at Champlain College St. Lambert.

Camp is not dead! This wonderful new volume explores its persistent effects on contemporary culture, from Dolly Parton to Madonna and from RuPaul’s Drag Race to House of 1000 Corpses. Drushel and Peters have assembled a collection of smart, witty, and accessible essays that explore how and why camp remains an important aspect of pop culture criticism even into the 21st century.

• ContentsIntroduction: Some Notes on “Notes”Brian M. Peters and Bruce E. DrushelPart I: Camp in LiteratureChapter 1: Voyage to Camp Lesbos: Pulp Fiction and the Shameful Lesbian “Sicko”Barbara Jane BrickmanChapter 2: Queer Ideology in the Novels of Joe Keenan Robert Kellerman Part II: Camp and CelebrityChapter 3: Authentic Artifice: Dolly Parton’s Negotiations of Sontag’s CampEmily Deering Crosby and Hannah LynnChapter 4: Diva Worship as a Queer Poetics of Waste in D. Gilson’s Brit LitChris Philpot Chapter 5: Camping in the Closet: Susan Sontag and the Construction of the Celebrity PersonaTim Cusack Part III: Camp on TelevisionChapter 6: Vicious Camp: Performance, Artifice, and IncongruityBruce E. Drushel Chapter 7: “Excuse My Beauty!”: Camp Referencing and Memory Activation on RuPaul’s Drag Race”Carl SchottmillerPart IV: Camp and PlaceChapter 8: Everything is Bigger in Texas: Camp and the Queerly Normal in Greater TunaElizabeth M.