Charles Hawtrey, Kenneth Williams, and Susan Sontag: Campaigners of Camp and the Carry On films.

If Camp was the twentieth century carminative for fear of "Being-as-Playing-a-Role," (Sontag 280) Queer, its efficacy as a laxative for such a depraving "social disease" in the twenty-first century, is quite ineffective. As Roger Lewis points out, "Everything has to be Camp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: John Bannister
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: University of Edinburgh 2007-06-01
Series:Forum
Online Access:http://www.forumjournal.org/article/view/579