"Camp asserts that good taste is not simply good taste; that there exists, indeed, a good taste of bad taste." In her well known 1964 piece, Notes on Camp, Susan Sontag summarized the fundamental paradox that occupies the heart of "camp," a parodic attitude toward taste and beauty which was at that time emerging as an increasingly common feature of American popular culture. Avoiding the drawn-out commentary and coherence of a serious essay format, Notes on Camp dashes off a stream of anecdotal postures, each adding its own touches to an outline of camp sensibility. "It's embarrassing to be solemn and treatise-like about Camp," Sontag writes. "One runs the risk of having produced a very inferior piece of Camp." And she was right. To take camp seriously is to miss the point. Camp, a taste of bad taste which languishes between parody and self parody, doesn't try to succeed...