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Working Like a Homosexual - Camp, Capital, Cinema (Paperback)
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Working Like a Homosexual - Camp, Capital, Cinema (Paperback)
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What does camp have to do with capitalism? How have queer men
created a philosophy of commodity culture? Why is cinema central to
camp? With chapters on the films of Vincente Minnelli, Andy Warhol,
Kenneth Anger, and John Waters, "Working Like a Homosexual
"responds to these questions by arguing that post-World War II gay
male subcultures have fostered their own ways not only of consuming
mass culture but of producing it as well.
With a special emphasis on the tensions between high and low forms
of culture and between good and bad taste, Matthew Tinkcom offers a
new vision of queer politics and aesthetics that is critically
engaged with Marxist theories of capitalist production. He argues
that camp--while embracing the cheap, the scorned, the gaudy, the
tasteless, and what Warhol called "the leftovers" of artistic
production--is a mode of intellectual production and a critical
philosophy of modernity as much as it is an expression of a
dissident sex/gender difference. From Minnelli's musicals and the
"everyday glamour" of Warhol's films to Anger's experimental films
and Waters's "trash aesthetic," Tinkcom demonstrates how camp
allowed these gay men to design their own relationship to labor and
to history in a way that protected them from censure even as they
struggled to forge a role for themselves within a system of "value"
that failed to recognize them.
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