![]() The stylised content of Batman helped kick-start television campiness, and series like The Avengers, The Addams Family, The Munsters, Gilligan’s Island, Lost In Space, The Wild Wild West, Get Smart, Charlie’s Angels, Fantasy Island, CHiPs and Are You Being Served? are enjoyed today for what are interpreted as their ‘camp’ aspects. The characters in Batman were costumed to exploit the new colours and changing fashion styles in ways that took advantage of camp. ![]() It wasn’t until the television version of Batman (1966-1968) – one of the most famous examples of camp humour in popular culture – that the link was made explicit, with the inherent ridiculousness of the concept exposed as a vehicle for comedy. The term became commonly used after Susan Sontag published a landmark 1964 essay on the subject and, coincidentally, much of the cult following of camp humour grew rapidly during America’s transition from black-and-white to colour television in the mid-sixties. The 1909 edition of the Oxford English Dictionary gave the first definition of ‘camp’ humour as, “Ostentatious, exaggerated, affected, theatrical, effeminate or homosexual.” This interpretation was probably derived from the French term ‘se camper’ meaning ‘to pose in an exaggerated fashion’.
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