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The makeup of RuPaul's drag race : essays on the queen of reality shows / edited by Jim Daems.
- Title
- The makeup of RuPaul's drag race : essays on the queen of reality shows / edited by Jim Daems.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Daems, Jim, 1966-
- Description
- vi, 202 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This international collection of original essays critically examines RuPaul's Drag Race and RuPaul's DragU and the representation of drag within the contexts of the reality TV genre and LGBTQ issues. Contributors focus on the structure of the programs, the subversive nature of drag, the treatment of trans contestants, race, language and the shows' handling of LGBTQ political issues"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Essays
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Introduction: RuPaul's ambivalent appropriation of pop culture / Jim Daems -- Representing gender, race and realness: the television world of America's next drag superstars / Mary Marcel -- Of fish and feminists: homonormative misogyny and the trans*queen / Laurie Norris -- Dragging with an accent: linguistic stereotypes, language barriers and translingualism / Libby Anthony -- Policing the proper queer subject: RuPaul's drag race in the neoliberal "post" moment / Kai Kohlsdorf -- "For your next drag challenge," you must do something: playfulness without rules / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns -- Cover, girl: branding Puerto Rican drag in 21st-century U.S. popular culture / R. Gabriel Mayora -- "Draguating" to normal: camp and homonormative politics / Josh Morrison -- Of women and queens: gendered realities and re-education in RuPaul's drag empire / Carolyn Chernoff -- The prime of Miss RuPaul Charles: allusion, betrayal and charismatic pedagogy / David J. Fine and Emily Shreve -- About the contributors.
- ISBN
- 9780786495078 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 0786495073 (softcover : alk. paper)
- 9781476618869 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- ^^2014034052
- OCLC
- 890462624
- SCSB-11535380
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library