Fearless vulgarity : Jacqueline Susann's queer comedy and camp authorship /
Through a writing formula that Ken Feil calls sleazy realism, Susann veers from gossip to confession and devises comedies of bad manners spun from real celebrities whose occasionally queer and always outré antics clashed with their "official" personas, the popular genres they were famous f...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Detroit :
Wayne State University Press,
[2023].
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| Series: | Contemporary approaches to film and media series.
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| Summary: | Through a writing formula that Ken Feil calls sleazy realism, Susann veers from gossip to confession and devises comedies of bad manners spun from real celebrities whose occasionally queer and always outré antics clashed with their "official" personas, the popular genres they were famous for, and the narrow, normative constructions of identity and reality shaped by the culture industry. Susann's promotional appearances led to another comedy of bad manners, this one populated with critics alternately horrified and delighted by an upstart woman vulgarian barging into the male literary firmament and which continues to inspire fascination for the author, her novels and their legendarily bad film adaptations. |
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| Physical Description: | xi, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780814346044 0814346049 9780814346037 0814346030 |