Camp: The Lie That Tells the Truth

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Summary: The Insider's Guide
Review: This is an amusing, cheeky introduction to a much maligned sensibility. Today's tell-all world sees camp as largely a quaintly archaic coping mechanism of yore; this book, with its provocative photos, sly, gossipy text, and astonishing breadth of subject, makes one wish it were not so. For here the flamboyant shares the stage with the subtly subversive. Where else could one find Hemingway and Oscar Wilde sharing equal billing? Where else could the Bright Young Things of 1920's England find themselves in close proximity to the rock group the Kinks? This book offers the kind of sophisticated, flashy wit, dreamy sensuousness, and naughty kinks that are in scant supply in our overblown, overexplicit, media-mad world nowadays. Camp is not dead, as some have proclaimed, but only waiting for the right moment to assert its subversive influence. Philip Core is the pied piper who will show us the way.

Rating:
Summary: The Insider's Guide
Review: This is an amusing, cheeky introduction to a much maligned sensibility. Today's tell-all world sees camp as largely a quaintly archaic coping mechanism of yore; this book, with its provocative photos, sly, gossipy text, and astonishing breadth of subject, makes one wish it were not so. For here the flamboyant shares the stage with the subtly subversive. Where else could one find Hemingway and Oscar Wilde sharing equal billing? Where else could the Bright Young Things of 1920's England find themselves in close proximity to the rock group the Kinks? This book offers the kind of sophisticated, flashy wit, dreamy sensuousness, and naughty kinks that are in scant supply in our overblown, overexplicit, media-mad world nowadays. Camp is not dead, as some have proclaimed, but only waiting for the right moment to assert its subversive influence. Philip Core is the pied piper who will show us the way.