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2019 | 107 Podróż, (E)migracja, pielgrzymka | 237-241

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Król(owa) kampu

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THE QUEEN OF CAMP

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PL
Tekst jest spojrzeniem na fenomen grupy Queen przez pryzmat filmu Bohemian Rhapsody oraz wystawy Notes on Fashion w Metropolitan Museum w Nowym Jorku, inspirowanej sławnym tekstem Susan Sontag Notes on Camp z 1964 r. Autor dowodzi, że film Bryana Singera, chociaż dość powierzchowny, odnosi sukces w jednym aspekcie: dobrze ukazuje dochodzenie wokalisty zespołu Freddiego Mercury’ego i reszty grupy Queen do show-biznesowego kampu. Giżycki stawia przy tym tezę, że Mercury, który jeszcze jako Farrokh Bulsara studiował w Ealing Art College w Londynie w latach 60., musiał znać tekst Sontag i kształtował swoją strategię wizerunkową według jego tez.
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In the article the Queen phenomena is considered through the prism of the film The Bohemian Rhapsody and the exhibition notes Notes on Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, inspired by the famous text by Susan Sontag Notes on Camp from 1964. The author argues that Bryan Singer's film, although quite superficial, is successful in one aspect: it shows well how the singer, Freddie Mercury, and the rest of the Queen achieved their level of show business camp. Giżycki also claims that Mercury, who while studying as Farrokh Bulsara at Ealing Art College in London in the 1960s, must have known Sontag's text, shaped his image strategy according to its theses.

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