The sex of Lady Gaga / Mathieu Dessem -- Lady Gaga's bodies: buying and selling The fame monster / Elizabeth Kate Switaj -- Body language and "bad romance": the virtual rhetoric of the artist / Jennifer M. Santos -- What a drag: Lady Gaga, Jo Calderone and the politics of representation / Heather Duerre Humann -- Follow the glitter way: Lady Gaga and camp / Katrin Horn -- Lady Gaga and the wolf: "Little Red Riding Hood" The fame monster and female sexuality / Jennifer M. Woolston -- Surrealism and the theatre of cruelty / Richard J. Gray II -- Rabelais meets Vogue: the construction of carnival, beauty and grotesque / David Annandale -- The fame monster: the monstrous construction of Lady Gaga / Ann T. Torrusio -- The appropriation of the Madonna aesthetic / Rebecca M. Lush -- Performing pop: Lady Gaga, "Weird Al" Yankovic and parodied performance / Matthew R. Turner -- "I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon": shock performance and human rights / Karley Adney -- Whiteness and the politics of "post-racial" America / Laura Gray-Rosendale [and others]
Summary
"Three years after entering the pop music scene, Lady Gaga became the most well-known pop star in the world. These thirteen critical essays explore Lady Gaga's body of work through the interdisciplinary filter of performance identity"--Provided by publisher
