Women, Camp, and Popular Culture

Katrin Horn is a postdoctoral fellow in American Studies at FAU Erlangen-Nürnberg, Germany. She is co-editor of Stimme, Kultur, Identität (2015) and author of several articles on US American popular music and television.

• 1. Beyond Gay Men and After the Closet: Camp’s New Politics and Pleasures.- 2. The History and Theory of Camp. I.  Stonewall, Sontag, ‘Sissies,’ Sirk. II. Camp’s Double Coding: Detachment / Attachment.- 3. The Great Dyke Rewrite – Lesbian Camp on the Big Screen. I.     New Queer Cinema. II.   Lesbian Chic. III.  Girls Gone Camping – But I’m a Cheerleader and D.E.B.S.. IV.  Subtext to Sincerity.- 4. TV in/vs. Postfeminism – Feminist Camp in 30 Rock. I.     Contemporary Sitcoms and Meta-Reflection. II.   Legacy of the Feminist Sitcom. III.  Postfeminism in US (Media) Culture. IV.  30 Rock’s Divergences in Comic Format and Narrative Formula. V.   “I want to go to there!” –  The Camp Routes of 30 Rock’s Leading Ladies. VI.  A Sitcom’s Swan Song.- 5. Taking Pop Seriously: Lady Gaga as Camp. I.     Gaga for Pop’s Giants – Stars, Divas and the Intimacy of Pop. II.   Internet Killed the Video Star –  Narrating Metareferentiality across Media. III.  “Followthe Glitter Way” –  The Monster Ball and Camp Live in Concert. IV.  Grotesquely Serious.- 6. Camp: A New, More Complex Relation to the Serious.