Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. Acknowledgements viii
4. Posology (or, How to Read a Reader) xi
5. Introduction: Queering the Camp 1
6. Section I: Tasting it
7. Introduction 43
8. 1 From The World in the Evening 49
9. 2 'Notes on "Camp"' 53
10. 3 'Campe-toi!: On the Origins and Definitions of Camp' 66
11. 4 From Camp: The Lie That Tells The Truth 80
12. Section II: Flaunting the Closet
13. Introduction 87
14. 5 'Role Models' 96
15. 6 'It's Being So Camp as Keeps Us Going' 110
16. 7 'The Cinema of Camp (aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility)' 117
17. 8 'For Interpretation: Notes against Camp' 136
18. 9 'Sex and Address in Dynasty' 143
19. 10 'Homosexual Signs (In Memory of Roland Barthes)' 160
20. 11 'Forgery' 179
21. 12 'Toward a Butch-Femme Aesthetic' 185
22. Section III: Gender, and Other Spectacles
23. Introduction 201
24. 13 From 'Wilde, Nietzsche, and the Sentimental Relations of the Male Body' 207
25. 14 'Post/modern: On the Gay Sensibility, or the Pervert's Revenge on Authenticity' 221
26. 15 'Camp among the Swastikas: Isherwood, Sally Bowles, and "Good Heter Stuff"' 237
27. 16 'Genderfuck: The Law of the Dildo' 254
28. 17 'What Makes the Feminist Camp?' 266
29. 18 "'Who's That Girl?" Annie Lennox, Woolf's Orlando, and Female Camp Androgyny' 283
30. Section IV: Pop Camp, Surplus Counter-Value, or the Camp of Cultural Economy
31. Introduction 301
32. 19 'Uses of Camp' 308
33. 20 'The Caped Crusader of Camp: Pop, Camp, and the Batman Television Series' 330
34. 21 'Warhol's Camp' 344
35. Section V: The Queer Issue
36. Introduction 355
37. 22 'From Interiority to Gender Performatives' 361
38. 23 'Boys Will Be Girls: Drag and Transvestic Fetishism' 369
39. 24 'Mae West's Maids: Race, "Authenticity", and the Discourse of Camp' 393
40. 25 'Camping in the Art Closet: The Politics of Camp and Nation in German Film' 409
41. 26 'The Deaths of Camp' 433
42. Digging the Scene: 458
43. Index of names 513