My Crazy Love for Japanese Camp

  • A lecture by Jonathan M. Hall
  • Friday, June 1, 17:00 Mousonturm Studio 3
  • Duration: approx. 1,5 hours
  • Lecture in English
  • Free admission

Although it isn’t well known, Japanese cinema has a rich history of camp, works of art that utilize exaggerated seriousness and superfluous subversion. In his lecture, Jonathan M. Hall addresses the following questions: What does camp look like in Japan? What does it do? Parsing a counterfeit review of Japanese “camp“ supposedly written by Susan Sontag, camp’s key theorist, he looks for the erotic, grotesque nonsense in it all.

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In cooperation with der Japan Visualmedia Translation Academy (JVTA)

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