Camping the “post-” on Scream Queens

Camping the “post-” on Scream Queens

In September 2015, Scream Queens debuted on FOX. In the show, mass killers at the anecdotal Wallace University mistreat and torment undergrads. From the outset, Scream Queens shows guarantee to upset heteronormativity, as the show's lead characters incorporate an unmistakably women's activist college Dean, an astringent and brilliant sorority president, and a gay researcher competitor. 

I contend that when the camp stylish enters the show's post-(woman's rights and sexuality) setting what arises is "pop-camp"— an influenced type of camp dispossessed of resistive guarantee. This investigation expands past investigations of pop-camp to ask how camp may reestablish sexism and homophobia through talks of the post-mixed with a motivation toward sentimentality. The post-presents a contorted perspective on the past imbalance. At the point when joined with humor, parody, and incongruity, this outdoors of the post-can be by and large hazardous in reestablishing sexism and homophobia. This examination of Scream Queens investigates how camp reacts to the post-way of talking that has come to characterize contemporary occasions.