GENDER & SEXUALITY: a Case Study of Pedro Almodóvar and Camp

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readings for week 10&11

WEEK 11/JULY 7^TH Lecture

Required Readings:

Babuscio, Jack (1978) “The Cinema of Camp, aka Camp and the Gay Sensibility”, In Fabio Cleto (Ed) (1999) Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, pp. 117-135

[click HERE to download]

Maddison, Stephen. “All about Women: Pedro Almodóvar and the Heterosocial Dynamic,” Textual Practice, 14.2 (2000), 265–284

[click HERE to download]

Susan, Sontag. (1964) Notes on Camp. In Susan Sontag (1966/1994) Against Interpretation. New York: Vintage

[distribute in class; NOTE: the document we distribute in class contains several chapters; you should only read Sontag's; but the other articles would be fun to read for your interest too]