Barry Despenza
Dale Carrico
Homo-Economicus
Prasis
11/22/2015
“Camp”
is usually
associated with theatricality with attribution towards the gay culture.
Camp Culture was popularized by filmmakers such as George & Mike
Kuchar. In notes on Susan Montag’s
camp, she clearly disagrees with the fact that camp is just some
cheesy concept but more of a insight into one’s behavior. One must have
love for the exaggeration and the artificial in order to “convert the
serious into frivoulous”. According to Montag,
What’s really interesting is the concept of camp and its world in terms
of style. She is careful to point out that some art can be approached
as a camp, which allows me to believe that camp isn’t something to be
ignored.
Sontag suggests that taste has neither systems nor proofs. What she
means is that taste has no formula. It’s clearly subjective and
therefore in order
to patronize and scrutinize one’s taste is distasteful. She goes on
later to deconstruct the notions of taste by addressing a series of
notes to Oscar Wilde. “to emphasize style, is to slight content, or to
introduce an attitude which is neutral with respect
to content”. Going back to the love for exaggeration, it is evident
that in importance of Ernest, that Ernest life has become a
theatrical experience for the viewer. Element of his life is campy but
the fact that he learns who he truly is, is a metaphor
for “self –identity”. As Montag said before, “Life is way too serious
to take serious”/
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