Re: Steve Fore's query about appopriation For what it's worth, I have two articles on how white camp authenticates itself through appropriations of Aboriginal and African American culture and imagery. One focuses on The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert and the other is about Mae West's maids. They both deal with how one subaltern group (queer culture, transgressive feminist camp culture) relies on another subaltern culture (Aboriginal Australian and African American) to authenticate its construction of a fluid and porous identity while treating the racial other as fixed and essential. The references (both under my maiden name, Robertson) are: "Mae West's Maids: Race, 'Authenticity,' and the Discourse of Camp" in Camp: Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject, A Reader, ed. Fabio Cleto (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press and University of Michigan Press, 1999) 393-408. "Home and Away: Friends of Dorothy on the Road in Oz." The Road Movie Book, ed. Steven Cohan and Ina Rae Hark (New York: Routledge, 1997) 271-286. Hope this doesn't seem unduly self-aggrandizing but these seem apt for your interests. All the best, Pam Robertson Wojcik ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu