Putting on the Red Dress: Reading Performative Camp in Douglas Sirk's All That Heaven Allows

Camp comes into being as a performative vernacular when naturalized constructions of gender and sexuality are questioned through the enactment of their inherent contradictions. As subjects that are feminized through heteronormative ideology, both women and gay men may have a similar attentiveness, o...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ryan Powell
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2007-06-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/583