Even here there's a kind of narcissistic preciousness, a camp sensibility that won't let the pictures speak for themselves, but keeps saying, "Look at me."
It's not that the source material didn't pose dangers: Waters's camp sensibility is like a hooker with a heart of gold and a bad case of syphilis.
Camp Records' releases typically consisted of parodies of existing songs or musical styles, primarily revised folk melodies with the lyrics rewritten to reflect a camp sensibility.
An outrageous camp sensibility spices his perceptions.
"He has a camp sensibility," said Anna Wintour, the editor of Vogue.
In her 1964 essay "Notes on "Camp"", Susan Sontag cited yé-yé as an example of an entire genre being annexed by the camp sensibility.
But in the book it's almost a camp sensibility in relation to these movies.
She has a sense of humor, also a particular gift for defining the camp sensibility.
It exalts the camp sensibility in a way that amounts to a political statement, although Smith probably couldn't have cared less.