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The King/Queen of Camp

Summary/Abstract: In the article the Queen phenomenon is considered through the prism of the film "Bohemian Rhapsody" and the exhibition "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 and shaped his image strategy according to its theses.

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