Category: Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp

A Subtlety, Domino Sugar Factory, New York, NY, USA, June 29, 2014 | © Courtesy of gigi_nyc/Flickr.

New Articles / open cultural studies / Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp

26/05/2018

New Article: Prissy’s Quittin’ Time: The Black Camp Aesthetics of Kara Walker

Brian Stephens Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0059 Abstract Through a close reading of Walker’s first silhouette instalment-the audaciously titled Gone, An Historical Romance of a Civil War as it Occurred Between the Dusky...

New Articles / open cultural studies / Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp

20/05/2018

New Article: “If You Don’t Bring No Grits, Don’t Come”: Critiquing a Critique of Patrick Kelly, Golliwogs, And Camp as A Technique of Black Queer Expression

Sequoia Barnes Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0062 Abstract I have written this article in order to establish Patrick Kelly as a black forbearer of fashion. Kelly complicates our sense of fashion through his use of black...

New Articles / open cultural studies / Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp

20/05/2018

New Article: “Beef Jerky in a Ball Gown”: The Camp Excesses of Titus Andromedon in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

Carmen Dexl / Katrin Horn DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0041 Abstract In this essay, we look at Titus Andromedon from the Netflix-sitcom Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2014-) as a singular phenomenon in contemporary TV: a black queen whose use...

The Man who would be King! H.R.H Prince Charles and the 'King of Pop' Michael Jackson Effigies, Portobello Market, London, UK, January 1, 2005 ©Courtesy of drinks machine/Flickr.

New Articles / open cultural studies / Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp

05/05/2018

New Article: Nobody Knows My Name: The Masquerade of Mourning in the Early 1980s Artistic Productions of Michael Jackson and Prince

Anna Pochmara and Justyna Wierzchowska Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0058 Abstract The article analyses Michael Jackson’s album Thriller and Prince’s movie Purple Rain. We explore their camp aesthetics and their recasting of the cultural...

New Articles / open cultural studies / Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp

21/04/2018

New Article: Love is the Message: Barkley Hendricks’s MFSB Portrait Aesthetics

Genevieve Hyacinthe Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0057 Abstract Barkley L. Hendricks’s (1945-2017) portraiture is considered in relation to camp’s liminal nature. Hendricks employs the camp techniques of surface emphasis, and affective audience engagement, to relay a...

New Articles / open cultural studies / Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp

21/04/2018

New Article: Beyoncé’s Slay Trick: The Performance of Black Camp and its Intersectional Politics

Constantine Chatzipapatheodoridis Published Online: 2017-12-29 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/culture-2017-0038 Abstract This article pays attention to African-American artist Beyonce Knowles and her performance of black camp. Beyonce’s stage persona and performances invite multiple ideological readings as to what pertains...

Hernan Bas, Florida Living Exhibition, Feb. 14 - Aug. 20, Returning to the SCAD Museum in Savannah, Georgia, USA, April 7, 2017 | © Courtesy of JR P/Flickr.

open cultural studies / Special Issue: Notes on Black Camp / Topical Spotlights

16/04/2018

African-American Artists and Performers between Camp Aesthetics and Racial Identity: Black Camp as a Critical Category

This article presents a blog version of Anna Pochmara and Justyna Wierzchowska’s panoramic introduction to “Notes on the Uses of Black Camp”: A special issue of Open Cultural Studies published in its inaugural, first...