To conclude the season, Saffron and Fabiola finally talk about camp icon Kenneth Anger and his galaxy-brain ability to blur the meanings of popular imagery and music.

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Citations:

BROOK, VINCENT. “Puce Modern Moment: Camp, Postmodernism, and the Films of Kenneth Anger.” Journal of Film and Video, vol. 58, no. 4, 2006, pp. 3–15. JSTOR, http://www.jstor.org/stable/20688535. 

“Kenneth Anger, Mouse Heaven, 2005.” Whitney.org, 2025 Whitney Museum of American Art, https://whitney.org/collection/works/27372

Pulver, Andrew. “Kenneth Anger, underground film-maker and Hollywood Babylon author, dies aged 96.” TheGuardian.com, 24 May 2023, https://www.theguardian.com/film/2023/may/24/kenneth-anger-underground-film-maker-and-hollywood-babylon-author-dies-aged-96.

Sontag, Susan. “Fascinating Fascism.” The New York Review, 6 February 1975.

Letterboxd review mentioned: https://letterboxd.com/nickrs/film/puce-moment/ by Nick R

Referenced films:

Puce Moment (1949)

Scorpio Rising (1963)

Mouse Heaven (2004)