• List of Tables and Illustrations • Acknowledgments • Introduction • Recipes for Disaster: The Rise and Fall of the 1970s Disaster Movie • From Disaster Parody to Parodic Disaster: Gremlins, Ghostbusters and the Development of High Concept Camp
• Queering the Wreckage and Straightening Up: Camp, Stereotyping and the Late 1990s Disaster Cycle
• “The Movie Is Awful”: Mars Attacks! and the Limits of High Concept Camp • From Camp to Kitsch: 9/11, Taste, and the Imagination of Disaster
• Conclusion: Campy Disaster, Comic Book Movies, and The Day After Tomorrow • Appendix: Camp Theory
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index