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Fearless Vulgarity - Jacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship (Paperback)
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Fearless Vulgarity - Jacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship (Paperback)
Series: Contemporary Approaches to Film and Media Series
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Catalyzed by her notoriously "dirty," fabulously successful
bestseller Valley of the Dolls, the "Jackie Susann Sixties" brimmed
with camp comedy that now permeates contemporary celebrations of
the author, from Pee-wee's Playhouse to RuPaul's Drag Race and Lee
Daniels's Star. First christened "camp" by Gloria Steinem in an
excoriating review of Valley of the Dolls and compounded by the
publishing juggernauts The Love Machine (1969), Once Is Not Enough
(1973), and Dolores (1976), the comedy of Jackie Susann illuminated
conflicting positions about gender, sexuality, and aesthetic value.
Through a writing formula that Ken Feil calls sleazy realism,
Susann veers from gossip to confession and devises comedies of bad
manners spun from real celebrities whose occasionally queer and
always outre antics clashed with their "official" personas, the
popular genres they were famous for, and the narrow, normative
constructions of identity and reality shaped by the culture
industry. Susann's promotional appearances led to another comedy of
bad manners, this one populated with critics alternately horrified
and delighted by an upstart woman vulgarian barging into the male
literary firmament, and which continues to inspire fascination for
the author, her novels, and their legendarily bad film adaptations.
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