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Camille Paglia

Apr 02, 1947 (78 years old) in Endicott, New York, USA

Camille Anna Paglia (born April 2, 1947) is an American academic and social critic. Paglia has been a professor at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, since 1984. Paglia is critical of many aspects of modern culture, and is the author of Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) and other books. She is a critic of American feminism and of post-structuralism as well as a commentator on multiple aspects of American culture such as its visual art, music, and film history. In 2005, Paglia was ranked No. 20 on a Prospect/Foreign Policy poll of the world's top 100 public intellectuals.

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Known For

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The South Bank Show
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E! True Hollywood Story
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It's Pat
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Inside Deep Throat
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Sex at 24 Frames Per Second
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Henry Fool
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Star Wars: The Legacy Revealed
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The Watermelon Woman
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What She Said: The Art of Pauline Kael
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Barbra Streisand: Becoming an Icon 1942–1984
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