Let's Go Camping!: Mommie Dearest

I floated the idea of campy movies as a palate cleanser, and the group overwhelmingly demanded it. So we'll start with them as breaks in-between our themes, with the possibility of them becoming their own theme if we want. We'll start with the Grand Poobah of all camp: Mommie Dearest (1981): a biopic about the Hollywood icon Joan Crawford that focuses on the alleged abuse of her daughter, Christina. Watch it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VKK9QTva1C8 What even is "camp"? To explore, and to get us all on the same page, here is Susan Sontag's 1964 article Notes On Camp. https://monoskop.org/images/5/59/Sontag_Susan_1964_Notes_on_Camp.pdf First Timers, WATCH THE MOVIE FIRST! Then, come ready to talk about it! We will meet on Friday, November 13th, 2026, at 8PM, at LEANING TOWER OF PIZZA at 24th Street and Lyndale, same as always. See you there!