What do the Bible, Torah, Quran, Bhagavad Gita, Book of Mormon, and Susan Sontag’s “Notes on ‘Camp’” have in common? Other than the fact that all of the former texts could be described as the latter, they’re canonical texts to their respective religions. Sontag’s is that of cinema, and “camp” is a distinct sensibility within it, one that she defines so eloquently in her 53-point manifesto . (Camp being in quotations is intentional; to cite Sontag, “Camp sees everything in quotation marks. It’s not a lamp, but a ‘lamp’; not a woman, but a ‘woman.’”)

In wordplay too self-aware to be camp but amusing nevertheless, the Gene Siskel Film Center hosts Summer Camp , a ten-film series running through the end of June. It’s an appropriate month, being Pride and all. Though not specifically cente

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