It's a really difficult thing to define, imo and it has more than one very narrow meaning. There's the heightened silliness of something bordering on extreme, that may be a man who's fairly out of the masculine league, in a stylised somewhat feminine persona, with often exagerated mannerisms. It's got a very longstanding connection to that one part of gay culture with such men in it, with those comedians such as Julian Clary listed above, still representative of it. There's often a kitsch element, reflective of that exageration and - imo - being something of an object of borderline taste/distaste towards the extremes of the norms of social 'normality', that can mean that camp doesn't need to relate just to people. It may be a room, a place or an object - perhaps Grace Jones, in her earlier years, epitomised aspects of camp, despite being a woman. Generally it would reflect the light aspsects of society and behaviour. Is Vladimir Putin camp, when he strips off and does his macho stuff? Trump often seems very camp to me, especially with his overdone hair and conversational exagerations - he'll flounce around, almost like an old, effeminate man, who you'd imagine did a lot of drag when younger, his facial mannerisms befitting of a seasoned drag performer. |
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