The Mysterians
The first post-World War II use of the word in print, marginally mentioned in the Sontag essay, may be Christopher Isherwood's 1954 novel "The World in the Evening", where he comments: "You can't camp about something you don't take seriously. You're not making fun of it; you're making fun "out" of it. You're expressing what's basically serious to you in terms of fun and artifice and elegance." In the American writer Susan Sontag's 1964 essay "Notes on "Camp"", Sontag emphasized artifice, frivolity, naïve middle-class pretentiousness, and shocking excess as key elements of camp. Examples cited by Sontag included Tiffany lamps, the drawings of Aubrey Beardsley, Tchaikovsky's ballet "Swan Lake", and Japanese science fiction films such as "Rodan", and "The Mysterians" of the 1950s.