Camp TV of the 1960s : reassessing the vast wasteland /

"Camp TV of the 1960s offers a comprehensive understanding of all of the many forms camp TV took during that critical decade. In reevaluating the history of camp on television, the authors reconsider the infantilized conceptualization of sixties television, which has generally been characterize...

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Other Authors:	Pinedo, Isabel Cristina, 1957- (Editor), Phillips, W. D. (Wyatt D.) (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2023]
Subjects:	Camp (Style) on television. Camp (Style) > United States > History > 20th century. Television programs > Social aspects > United States > History > 20th century. Television broadcasting > Social aspects > United States. Camp (Esthétique) à la télévision. Camp (Esthétique) > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle. Émissions télévisées > Aspect social > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle. Télévision > Aspect social > États-Unis. History & Criticism. Film & Video. PERFORMING ARTS. Television. Camp (Style) Television broadcasting > Social aspects Television programs > Social aspects United States Films, cinema. Performing Arts. 1900-1999 Electronic books. History Television criticism and reviews Television criticism and reviews. Critiques d'émissions télévisées.
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Table of Contents:

Gilligan and Captain Kirk have more in common than you think: 1960s camp TV as an alternative genealogy for cult television / Isabel C. Pinedo and W. D. Phillips
Fractured Flickers (1963-64), camp, and cinema's ab/usable past / Andrea Cominskey and Jonah Horwitz
Wearing French cuffs to a gunfight: camp and violence in Hanna-Barber'as Snagglepuss (1961) / Emily Hoffman
They're creepy and they're campy: camping the American family on 1960s horror television / Jamie Hook
Spellcasting camp: Bewitched (1964-72) / Andrew J. Owens
How the West was fun: F Troop (1965-67) and the American frontier / Cynthia J. Miller
"Holy fruit salad, Batman!": unmasking queer conceits of ABC's late-1960s branding / Benjamin Kruger-Robbins
"We're being passed off as something we aren't": authenticity versus camp on The Monkees (1966-68) / Dan Amernick
Straight male spies, queer camp vistas: the evolution of non-normative masculinities in The Avengers (1961-69) and 1960s British spy-fi TV / Craig Haslop and Douglas McNaughton
Can TV music be camp? Notes from the 1960s / Reba A. Wissner
Flippers (1964-67) dark camp / Nicholas C. Morgan
Camp TV, The Beverly Hillbillies (1962-71), and Flip Wilson's (1970-74) Geraldine Jones: negativity, trans gender queer, and the comedy of manners / Ken Feil
"Far right, far left, and far out": mainstreaming camp on American television / Moya Luckett
Afterword: questions of taste and pre-cult/post-cult / Matt Hills.