{"product_id":"fearless-vulgarity-jacqueline-susanns-queer-comedy-and-camp-authorship-paperback-softback-9780814346044","title":"Fearless Vulgarity; Jacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship (Paperback \/ softback) 9780814346044","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eFearless Vulgarity\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eJacqueline Susann's Queer Comedy and Camp Authorship\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eKen Feil (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780814346044\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 29 November 2022\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 41 b\u0026amp;w images\u003cbr\u003e22.8 x 15.2 x 1.7 cm, 0.363 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003e“For decades, only the die-hard film nerds and LGBTQIA+ pop culture fanatics recognized Suzann’s impact, but hopefully Feil’s book will open her legacy to a wider audience.”\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e  - Library Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eCatalyzed by her notoriously \"dirty,\" fabulously successful bestseller \u003ci\u003eValley of the Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e, the \"Jackie Susann Sixties\" brimmed with camp comedy that now permeates contemporary celebrations of the author, from \u003ci\u003ePee-wee's Playhouse \u003c\/i\u003eto \u003ci\u003eRuPaul's Drag Race\u003c\/i\u003e and Lee Daniels's \u003ci\u003eStar. \u003c\/i\u003eFirst christened \"camp\" by Gloria Steinem in an excoriating review of \u003ci\u003eValley of the Dolls\u003c\/i\u003e and compounded by the publishing juggernauts \u003ci\u003eThe Love Machine \u003c\/i\u003e(1969), \u003ci\u003eOnce Is Not Enough \u003c\/i\u003e(1973), and \u003ci\u003eDolores \u003c\/i\u003e(1976), the comedy of Jackie Susann illuminated conflicting positions about gender, sexuality, and aesthetic value. Through a writing formula that Ken Feil calls \u003ci\u003esleazy realism\u003c\/i\u003e, Susann veers from gossip to confession and devises comedies of bad manners spun from real celebrities whose occasionally queer and always outré antics clashed with their \"official\" personas, the popular genres they were famous for, and the narrow, normative constructions of identity and reality shaped by the culture industry. Susann's promotional appearances led to another comedy of bad manners, this one populated with critics alternately horrified and delighted by an upstart woman vulgarian barging into the male literary firmament, and which continues to inspire fascination for the author, her novels, and their legendarily bad film adaptations.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Wayne State University Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52563769688344,"sku":"9780814346044","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/fearless-vulgarity-jacqueline-susanns-queer-comedy-and-camp-authorship-paperback-softback-9780814346044","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}