| Description |
1 online resource (303 pages) |
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RuPaul's Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture; Acknowledgments; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Drag Culture, Global Participation and RuPaul's Drag Race; References; Part I Representation and the Parameters of Drag Identity; The "RuPaulitics" of Subjectification in RuPaul's Drag Race; "Start Your Engines!"; Ru-Presenting Drag Culture; A Foucauldian Xtravaganza!; "The Bitch Turned It!": Transforming the Subject; "Light a Fire under Your Ass": Inventions and Interventions; Conclusion: Ru-flections and Further Directions; References |
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Contradictions Between the Subversive and the Mainstream: Drag Cultures and RuPaul's Drag RaceIntroduction; Authenticity, Competition and Consumption, in and out of Drag; Methodological Note; The Library Is Open: Reading Authenticity, Consumption and Competition in RPDR; Conclusion; References; "Pick up a book and go read": Art and Legitimacy in RuPaul's Drag Race; Serena's Persona on RDPR; Elevating Drag and Elevated Language; Artistic Legitimacy, Reality, and Extra Dramatic Sound Effects; References |
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North American Universalism in RuPaul's Drag Race: Stereotypes, Linguicism, and the Construction of "Puerto Rican Queens"Race and the Universal Subject; Latinadad Media Representation and Stereotyping; Racialized Humor and Linguicism; Refutations of Latinx Cultural Capital; Conclusions; References; Spicy. Exotic. Creature. Representations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities on RuPaul's Drag Race; Feminist Theory, Intersectionality, and Domains of Power; "Creature": BeBe Zahara Benet as the "Exotic" Other; "Escandalo!": RPDR's Puerto Rican Contestants |
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"Doesn't Mean You're Racist. You Hate Everybody, Including Your Own Race": Cultural Appropriation and (Acceptable?) Racist StereotypesImplications of Racial and Ethnic Stereotypes and Exoticization; References; The Werk That Remains: Drag and the Mining of the Idealized Female Form; Television Realness; Bodies; The "Large" Drag Queen; Drag U; Conclusion; References; Big-Girls Don't Cry: Portrayals of the Fat Body in RuPaul's Drag Race; "Reading Is Fundamental"; "Big Girl Is in the House"; Cooperation; "Funny Funny Kid"; "When I Don't Shave, I'm a Bear"; "Plus Size Barbie." |
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Emphasizing Other Traits"Can I Get an Amen?"; References; Part II Drag Culture, Community and Belonging; "I Am the Drag Whisperer": Notes from the Front Line of a Cultural Phenomenon; Sissy That Performance Script! The Queer Pedagogy of RuPaul's Drag Race; You Betta' Represent!; Stroll Down the Runway (Methods); Confronting the Glamazon; The Main Event; RuPaul's Best Friend Race; Can I Get an Amen?; References; Super Troopers: The Homonormative Regime of Visibility in RuPaul's Drag Race; The Trajectory of Drag Queen Representation; From the Drag Mother ... ; ... To the Drag Fatherland |
| Summary |
This book identifies and analyzes the ways in which RuPaul's Drag Race has reshaped the visibility of drag culture in the US and internationally, as well as how the program has changed understandings of reality TV. This edited volume illustrates how drag has become a significant aspect of LGBTQ experience and identity globally through RuPaul's Drag Race, and how the show has reformed a media landscape in which competition and reality itself are understood as given. Taking on lenses addressing race, ethnicity, geographical origin, cultural identity, physicality and body image, and participation in drag culture across the globe, this volume offers critical, non-traditional, and first-hand perspectives on drag culture |
| Notes |
Expanding Rather than Concluding |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
RuPaul's drag race (Television program : 2009- ) -- Influence
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Reality television programs -- Social aspects
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Female impersonators on television.
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Cultural studies.
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Popular culture.
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Media studies.
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Film, TV & radio.
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
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Social Science -- Gender Studies.
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Social Science -- Popular Culture.
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Social Science -- General.
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Social Science -- Media Studies.
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Performing Arts -- Film & Video -- General.
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Reality television programs -- Social aspects.
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Female impersonators on television.
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Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Gudelunas, David
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| ISBN |
9783319506180 |
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3319506188 |
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