HomeAuthor: Bill Burton

Author: Bill Burton

Bill Burton

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Essays

On the Domestication of Camp

Currently, what passes for camp in popular culture is sadly lacking in this innovative critique. In brief, camp has gone mainstream, and there’s no better example than the current mega-exhibition titled Camp: Notes on Fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, mounted by its Costume Institute, which attempts to piggy- back on camp’s gay legacyMore

Art

Stonewall Comes to the 100′ Screen

If one was wondering why the Newseum mounted this exhibit, “Into the Streets” answers the question: it views American gay history as a civil rights movement. The 1960s was a time when women and blacks were being liberated, notes activist Mark Segal, so “Why not us?” Someone else calls what Harry Hay began “the last civil rights movement of the 20th century.”

Essays

About Tennessee Williams

What follows is the first English translation (by Mark Oshima) of a piece by the great Japanese novelist, poet, and playwright Yukio Mishima (1925–1970), which appeared in the September 1966 issue of Higeki Kigeki(“Tragedy and Comedy”).

Features

Tennessee and Mishima in Conversation

TENNESSEE WILLIAMS and Yukio Mishima talked about their work and work routines in 1959. The conversation was lightly moderated by Williams’ life partner Frank Merlo, whom Mishima refers to as Williams’ “secretary.” Also present was Williams’ friend Donald Richie, who chimes in near the end.
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