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Keith Vincent has lectured about camp and kitsch in Mishima's "Patriotism" and his persona - more about the story than the film but with reference to both.
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<div>On Nov 7, 2013, at 10:28 AM, "Jason G. Karlin" <<a href="mailto:ukarlin@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp">ukarlin@mail.ecc.u-tokyo.ac.jp</a>></div>
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Jonathan D. Mackintosh's chapter "The Homo Cultures of Iconic Personality in Japan: Mishima Yukio and Misora Hibari" in my co-edited volume Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture (Palgrave, 2012) briefly discusses camp in relation to Misora Hibari's
star image. The chapter does not focus on camp per se, but rather gay icons in postwar Japan. Mackintosh argues that Hibari and Mishima were similarly appropriated as iconic personalities by gay men in the 1970s.
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<div>Andrew Ross describes the "camp effect" as when cultural products (such as stars, fashions, genres, and stereotypes) of an earlier moment of production have lost their power to dominate cultural meanings and become available in the present for redefinition
according to contemporary tastes. If there is an appropriation and ironic distancing of objects among gay men, I would say that film is one of its least common sources. More recently, I think Matsuda Seiko has become a kind of gay icon. However, the camp that
she inspires through parody is more often rooted, like Misora, in terms of her stage performances.
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<div>I'm not aware of any iconic "camp" Japanese films, like the Wizard of Oz (1939) or Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) in the US. Since camp arises from audiences investing texts with new meanings, the Japanese camp film would depend upon cult audiences producing
alternate readings of film texts that are not explicitly concerned with gay themes. Perhaps Misora's films are camp?</div>
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<div>On Nov 7, 2013, at 11:19 PM, Markus Nornes <<a href="mailto:amnornes@umich.edu">amnornes@umich.edu</a>> wrote:</div>
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