A new look at the MGM musical and its camp appeal.*

/Incongruous Entertainment: Camp, Cultural Value, and the MGM Musical/ 
by Steven Cohan*

By establishing camp as central to the genre, /Incongruous 
Entertainment/ provides a new way of looking at the musical. With its 
behind-the-scenes history and close readings of favorite camp films, the 
book will appeal to gay readers and film fans.


"Steven Cohan's scholarship is impeccable and his writing elegant and 
witty. He pulls together all the previous approaches to camp and uses 
them to explore the MGM musical and its stars from every angle I could 
think of--and a few I would never have thought of."--Alexander Doty, 
author of /Flaming Classics: Queering the Film Canon///

For more information:

http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=8223-3595-6 <http://www.dukeupress.edu/books.php3?isbn=8223-3543-3>

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