Meaning of high camp | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A locality in the Shire of Mitchell, central Victoria, Australia.
2. A sophisticated form of camp (campiness), which may display good talent and skill.
   attributive, often, uncountable
3. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see high, camp.
   uncountable

Examples

“But rather than drawing on extant rich stories about female superheroes, contemporary comic-based movies either downplay their powers and their personalities or rewrite⟳ them as trashy high camp.”

“A “tropical melodrama” is how the marketing materials bill “The Invisible Life of Eurídice Gusmão.” If that sounds about the most high-camp subgenre ever devised, Karim Aïnouz’s ravishing period saga lives up to the description […]”

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