Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, and Susan Sontag: Campaigners of Camp and the Carry On films.
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https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.04.579Abstract
If Camp was the twentieth century carminative for fear of "Being-as-Playing-a-Role," (Sontag 280) Queer, its efficacy as a laxative for such a depraving "social disease" in the twenty-first century, is quite ineffective. As Roger Lewis points out, "Everything has to be Camp now, from Eddie Izzard to Graham Norton" (68). To be Camp is not to be a la commodious. It has passed into the mainstream. It is a la mode. How has this happened? Homosexuality had to be douched by lavatorial comedy.Downloads
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05-Jun-2007
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Bannister, John. 2007. “Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, and Susan Sontag: Campaigners of Camp and the Carry On Films”. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 04 (June). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.04.579.
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