RIP Emma Small you would have loved christofascism!
Camp is inherently queer, obviously, but I've always been fascinated by its use as a feminist tool. Johnny Guitar is Exhibit A.
This film is wonderful: gorgeously shot, brilliantly written and acted. Mercedes McCambridge is pitch perfectly cruel albeit annoying (very Trishelle-in-Traitors-Season-2 vibes).
Subversive. Transgressive. Johnny Guitar deserves to stand alongside The Crucible as a contender for definitive allegory of the Red Scare. By extension it shows just how full of shit Susan…