Absurdly Witty and Wittily Absurd

In this essay, we examine stylistic resources that underscore spectacle and extravagance in Joey Gosiengfiao’s “Temptation Island” (1980) to explore how the film utilizes exaggeration to dramatize camp sensibility, with the aim of broadening the notion of cinematic excess. Camp, for the most part, i...

The International Journal of Critical Cultural Studies

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