Susan Sontag
Susan Sontag (January 16, 1933 – December 28, 2004) was an American writer and filmmaker, professor, literary icon, and political activist.
Life
Beginning with the publication of her 1964 essay "Notes on 'Camp'", Sontag became an international cultural and intellectual celebrity. Sontag was active in writing and speaking about, or travelling to, areas of conflict, including during the Vietnam War and the Siege of Sarajevo. She wrote extensively about photography, culture and media, AIDS and illness, human rights, and communism and leftist ideology. Her often provocative essays and speeches sometimes drew criticism. The New York Review of Books called her "one of the most influential critics of her generation" [1].
Books
- Articles, papers, reviews
- "Film and Theatre", The Tulane Drama Review, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Autumn, 1966):24-37
- Collections of essays
- Against Interpretation (includes "Notes on 'Camp'"), 1966
- Styles of Radical Will, 1969
- Under the Sign of Saturn, 1980
- Where the Stress Falls, 2001
- Regarding the Pain of Others, 2002
- At the Same Time: Essays & Speeches, 2007
- Monographs
- On Photography, 1977
- Illness as Metaphor, 1978
- AIDS and Its Metaphors (a continuation of Illness as Metaphor), 1988
- Regarding the Pain of Others, 2003
