Description: "Amusing, and exceptionally smart, Dying for a Laugh shrewdly transforms the last quarter century of Hollywood movie-making into a complex formula of disaster spectacle, high concept, mass camp, and queer traces."--Janet Staiger, author of Perverse Spectators "Amusing, and exceptionally smart, Dying for a Laugh shrewdly transforms the last quarter century of Hollywood movie-making into a complex formula of disaster spectacle, high concept, mass camp, and queer traces."--Janet Staiger, author of Perverse Spectators "Disaster movies embrace both the horror and the comic absurdity at work in contemporary life, and Ken Feil's book, through the lens of camp, furnishes us with a compelling explanation as to why this is so. This is a witty, smart and sophisticated book."--Matthew Tinkcom, author of Working Like a Homosexual

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