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Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Introduction: "The dirt doesn't get any worse": The Alliance of Camp and Dirt -- PART I: Upside - Downside - Upside: Camp's Dialectic of Dirt and Beauty -- 1 The Jewel in the Gutter: Camp and the Incorporation of Dirt -- 2 Camp Conquests: Deconstructing the Sublime in The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert -- 3 "The odd and gory things in life": Roy Raz' Music Videos and Camp Aesthetics -- 4 Camp as a Critical Strategy in And the Spring Comes -- PART II: Trash, Dirt and Leftovers: The Oscillations of Matter -- 5 The "Available" Joe Brainard -- 6 Dirty Sound: The Camp Materialism of Blood Orgy of the Leather Girls -- 7 Camping Out in the Detritus of the 1960s Queer Underground: The "Moldy" Fantasies of Jack Smith -- 8 A Camp Fairy Tale: The Dirty Class of John Waters' Desperate Living -- 9 Malapropos Desires: The Cinematic Oikos of Grey Gardens -- PART III: Debris of the Past -- 10 Camp Patina: Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, Transvestism and Gründerzeit Furniture -- 11 Camping Indigeneity: The Queer Politics of Kent Monkman -- 12 Innocence Unprotected: Camp in Yugoslavian Cinema -- Notes on Contributors -- Index