Tag: susan sontag
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Review: Raining McCain
In her 1964 essay–if one can call an enumerated list an essay–“Notes on ‘Camp,’” Susan Sontag delineated what she called the Camp style. Though nearly every example she gives is obscure to me, the essential traits of camp are clear: it’s exaggerated, it’s methods overwhelm its message, and it thereby becomes a parody of itself.…