Working Like a Homosexual: Camp, Capital, and Cinema

by Matthew Tinkcom

Book Overview

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.
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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822328895
• ISBN13: 9780822328896
• Release Date: March 2002
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.9" x 9.3"