Camp: Notes on Film - Video Essay

I created this video for my Film Critic class. Hopefully this provides an understanding of camp and Susan Sontag's explanation through her essay.

[moviemirage]

This is an extremely well put together video for an genre in films that is hardly defined.

[TheyForgotMySalad]

Okay but can we talk about how RuPaul just used a Ram Dass quote to explain camp!!

[luromero]

This video is a hidden treasure. It should have more views, is f amazing

[G.RobertMoore-dksz]

3:38 "is it Camp?"
No, its cake.

[annapartridge]

wow this is so well made and explained, thank you!!

[Jsmith-xift]

I will quote U.S. Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart in 1964 " regarding a case dealing with the nature of pornography and he said "I know it when I see it." Same could be said of Camp.

[jeffchow]

I love this video! The game "Is it Camp" is not camp do you think? Camp escapes categorization and as you mentioned in the first slide, is a mode of aestheticism. Camp only became a more widely known concept it slowly developed its own canon

[DailyProg]

Loved this video essay and the reference to Sontag’s essay

[noahway]

It is similar to IRONIC, which is also hard to define.

[annarose]

Could you say that camp is a subculture within the 20th-21st Postmodernism movement?

[lookbovine]

Sorry, but this did not help me much... Aquaman was called “campy” somewhere so I’m trying to figure out if something high-budget with state of the art computer-animated action scenes and backgrounds could be “camp”... still not sure. It just seemed commercial, overly macho and unfunny when it tried, which in many ways is the opposite.