History Quotes / Camp

''We'll [[{{Revival}} revamp,]] make [[UpToEleven more camp]], a [[Series/DoctorWho sci-fi show from yesteryear!]]''

-> ''You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it; you're making fun out of it. You're expressing what's basically serious to you in terms of fun and artifice and elegance''.\\
-->--'''Creator/ChristopherIsherwood'''

->''Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation - not judgment. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy. It only seems like malice, cynicism. (Or, if it is cynicism, it's not a ruthless but a sweet cynicism.) Camp taste doesn't propose that it is in bad taste to be serious; it doesn't sneer at someone who succeeds in being seriously dramatic. What it does is to find the success in certain passionate failures...Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of "character." . . . Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as "a camp," they're enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling.''

->''One must distinguish between naive and deliberate Camp. Pure Camp is always naïve. Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.''\\

->''When it comes to film and television production I think camp is often the accidental flame sparked by the friction between budget and ambition.''\\

->''I think that any gay person in the world would be seduced at one point by a certain kind of camp. For certain people it's kind of a saving grace.''\\

'''John''': Well, sort of.\\

''Let's do it - I've had a really good idea!''\\

-> [[https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1125550301845417984?s=20 ''Me screaming THAT’S NOT CAMP on this United Airlines flight is camp - NOT WHATEVER YOU’RE WEARING!!!!!!!!!'']]\\

->''One must distinguish between naive and deliberate Camp. Pure Camp is always naïve. Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.''\\

-->--'''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWS27r_Gai0&t=253s Passion of the Nerd]]''' "[[Recap/AngelS01E09IWillRememberYou I Will Remember You]]"

-- Christopher Isherwood

->''Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation - not judgment. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy. It only seems like malice, cynicism. (Or, if it is cynicism, it's not a ruthless but a sweet cynicism.) Camp taste doesn't propose that it is in bad taste to be serious; it doesn't sneer at someone who succeeds in being seriously dramatic. What it does is to find the success in certain passionate failures. ... Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of "character." . . . Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as "a camp," they're enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling.''

->''One must distinguish between naive and deliberate Camp. Pure Camp is always naive. Camp which knows itself to be Camp ('camping') is usually less satisfying.''\\
-- Susan Sontag "[[http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Sontag-NotesOnCamp-1964.html Notes on 'Camp']]"

-- Passion of the Nerd "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zWS27r_Gai0&t=253s I Will Remember You]]"

-- Music/RufusWainwright.

-- ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

-->-- [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giaMRyn47Xg&feature=feedf The Ballad of Russell and Julie]]

-- Creator/BillyEichner

->''Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation - not judgment. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy. It only seems like malice, cynicism. (Or, if it is cynicism, it's not a ruthless but a sweet cynicism.) Camp taste doesn't propose that it is in bad taste to be serious; it doesn't sneer at someone who succeeds in being seriously dramatic. What it does is to find the success in certain passionate failures. ... Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of "character." . . . Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as "a camp," they're enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling.''\\
-- Susan Sontag, "[[http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/theory/Sontag-NotesOnCamp-1964.html Notes on 'Camp']]"

-> [[https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1125550301845417984?s=20 ''Me screaming THAT’S NOT CAMP on this United Airlines flight is camp - NOT WHATEVER YOU’RE WEARING!!!!!!!!!'']]

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||''Pop''||''Camp''
||Popular (designed for the mass audiences)||Easily accessible
||Transient (short term solutions)|| Determinedly facile
||Expendable ||Trashy
||Low Cost ||Mock luxurious
||Mass-Produced ||Mass-Produced
||Young ||Youth Worshiping
||Witty ||Witty
||Sexy ||Mock Sexy
||Gimmicky ||Willfully hackneyed
||Glamorous ||Mock Glamorous
||Big Business ||BIG BUSINESS
-- Mark W. Booth, "[[https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0704323532/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o05_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Camp]]"

-> [[https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1125550301845417984?s=20 "''Me screaming THAT’S NOT CAMP on this United Airlines flight is camp - NOT WHATEVER YOU’RE WEARING!!!!!!!!!''"]]

---- Creator/BillyEichner

-> [[https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1125550301845417984?s=20 ''Me screaming THAT’S NOT CAMP on this United Airlines flight is camp - NOT WHATEVER YOU’RE WEARING!!!!!!!!!'']]
-- Creator/BillyEichner

-> ''Me screaming THAT’S NOT CAMP on this United Airlines flight is camp - NOT WHATEVER YOU’RE WEARING!!!!!!!!!''
-- Creator/BillyEichner "[[https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1125550301845417984?s=20]]"

-- [[https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1125550301845417984?s=20 ''Billy Eichner'']]

->''[==]'''Camp''' -- deliberate bad taste -- is in fact the opposite of kitsch... Camp puts a certain amount of ingenuity, subtlety and creative talent into a work which is obviously silly, stupid, or tasteless.''\\
-- [[http://plover.net/~bonds/campkitschtrash.html Stephen Bond]].

-- [[https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1125550301845417984?s=20 BillyEichner]]

-- [[https://twitter.com/billyeichner/status/1125550301845417984?s=20 ''Creator/BillyEichner'']]

->''Camp taste is, above all, a mode of enjoyment, of appreciation - not judgment. Camp is generous. It wants to enjoy. It only seems like malice, cynicism. (Or, if it is cynicism, it's not a ruthless but a sweet cynicism.) Camp taste doesn't propose that it is in bad taste to be serious; it doesn't sneer at someone who succeeds in being seriously dramatic. What it does is to find the success in certain passionate failures. ... Camp taste is a kind of love, love for human nature. It relishes, rather than judges, the little triumphs and awkward intensities of "character." . . . Camp taste identifies with what it is enjoying. People who share this sensibility are not laughing at the thing they label as "a camp," they're enjoying it. Camp is a tender feeling.''

-- RufusWainwright.

-> '''[[JohnWaters John]]''': It's camp! ({{beat}}) The tragically ludicrous? The ludicrously tragic?\\

''We'll [[{{Revival}} revamp,]] make [[UpToEleven more camp]], a [[Series/DoctorWho sci-fi show from yesteryear!]]''\\

''We'll [[{{Revival}} revamp,]] make [[UpToEleven more camp]], a [[Series/DoctorWho sci-fi show from yesteryear!]]''\

->''[==]'''Camp''' -- deliberate bad taste -- is in fact the opposite of kitsch. ... Camp puts a certain amount of ingenuity, subtlety and creative talent into a work which is obviously silly, stupid, or tasteless.''\\

''We'll [[{{Revival}} revamp,]] make [[UpToEleven more camp]], a [[Series/DoctorWho sci-fi show from yesteryear!]]''\\

''We'll [[{{Revival}} revamp,]] make [[BeyondTheImpossible more camp]], a [[Series/DoctorWho sci-fi show from yesteryear!]]''\\

-- ''TheSimpsons''