INTERNATIONAL INTRIGUE. POP SPY AND CHIC SECRETS OF THE SIXTIES (Miedzynarodowa intryga. Szpiedzy pop i szykowne sekrety lat 60)

• Authors: Cleto Fabio
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The essay addresses the New York scene of late 1964 as the stage for the emergence of camp, framing contemporary issues of visual and celebrity culture, conspicuous consumption, gender, subcultural subversion, appropriation and reclaiming. The paradoxical economy of pop secrecy of the mid-Sixties is charted by enacting a complex narrative that intermingle three icons of survival (James Bond, Susan Sontag, Victor J. Banis) differently deployed as star spies on the spectrum of cultural visibility. Ranging from the James Bond ironic reassertion of British superiority and the male gaze, to the female challenge to high culture sacredness of Sontag's camp, to the ambiguous survival strategy of Banis' pulp hero, the gay secret agent Jackie Holmes, these three camps stand for the complex use of camp by institutions, intellectuals, women and gays, a use that foregrounds a competition as well as a proximity that inscribes them all in the spectacular cultural scene of the time, peopled by moles, double crossers, and hidden schemes.

Keywords

EN

BANIS VICTOR J.; BOND JAMES; CAMP; SONTAG SUSAN

Discipline

• ARTS_&_ARCHITECTURE: ARTS & ARCHITECTURE

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2009
• Issue: 66
• Pages: 5-36
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Cleto Fabio

• Fabio Cleto, Department of Cultural Studies, University of Bergamo, Piazza Rosate 2, I-24129 Bergamo, Italy

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

09PLAAAA068513