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> -- Laura Sell Duke University Press Publicity 905 West Main Street Suite 18B Durham, NC 27701 Tel: (919) 687-3639 Fax: (919) 688-4391 [log in to unmask] http://dukeupress.edu <http://dukeupress.edu/> ---- Screen-L is sponsored by the Telecommunication & Film Dept., the University of Alabama: http://www.tcf.ua.edu