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Catalyzed by her notoriously dirty, fabulously successful bestseller Valley of the Dolls, the Jackie Susann Sixties brimmed with camp comedy that now permeates contemporary celebrations of the author, from Pee-wees Playhouse to RuPauls Drag Race and Lee Danielss Star. First christened camp by Gloria Steinem in an excoriating review of Valley of the Dolls and compounded by the publishing juggernauts The Love Machine (1969), Once Is Not Enough (1973), and Dolores (1976), the comedy of Jackie Susann illuminated conflicting positions about gender, sexuality, and aesthetic value. Through a writing formula that Ken Feil calls sleazy realism, 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. Susanns 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.Ken Feil is the author of Rowan and Martins Laugh-In (Wayne State University Press, 2014) and Dying for a Laugh: Disaster Movies and the Camp Imagination. Feil has taught at Emerson College since 1995.Book specifications:Collection: Contemporary Approaches to Film and MediaDimensions: 229 x 152Author: Ken FeilCover type: HardcoverPublishing Year: 2022Publishing Month: 11Pages: 304Language: EnglishPublisher: Wayne State University PressWeight: 594 g
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