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Camp TV of the 1960s is the first book on camp on television that considers the various forms it took during that critical decade. It reconsiders American prime-time programs that drew significantly on aspects of camp such as Batman, The Monkees, The Addams Family, Bewitched, F Troop, British programs including The Avengers, and programs not often associated with camp TV like Snagglepuss. The book also investigates how musical codes convey camp humor, camp's origins and later reappropriation within queer communities, and how camp's multiple meanings allowed for more conservative readings that led to its mass dissemination by the seventies.…mehr

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Camp TV of the 1960s is the first book on camp on television that considers the various forms it took during that critical decade. It reconsiders American prime-time programs that drew significantly on aspects of camp such as Batman, The Monkees, The Addams Family, Bewitched, F Troop, British programs including The Avengers, and programs not often associated with camp TV like Snagglepuss. The book also investigates how musical codes convey camp humor, camp's origins and later reappropriation within queer communities, and how camp's multiple meanings allowed for more conservative readings that led to its mass dissemination by the seventies.
Autorenporträt
Isabel C. Pinedo is Professor of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College, CUNY. She is the author of Difficult Women on Television Drama: The Gender Politics of Complex Women in Serial Narratives, Recreational Terror: Women and the Pleasures of Horror Film Viewing, and articles on television and the horror film in such journals as Television and New Media, Journal of Popular Television, and Jump Cut, and such books as Final Girls, Feminism and Popular Culture and A Companion to the Horror Film. Wyatt D. Phillips is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies in the English Department at Texas Tech University. His work primarily engages questions of the political economy and industrial practices of media production and circulation. He has published in Film History, Genre: Forms of Discourse and Culture, The Journal of Popular Television, and The Historical Journal of Film, Radio and Television, as well as contributing chapters to half a dozen collections.