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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