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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.
List of contents
Chapter 1. Drag Culture, Global Participation and RuPaul's Drag Race.- Chapter 2. The 'RuPaulitics' of Subjectification in RuPaul's Drag Race.- Chapter 3. Contradictions between the Subversive and the Mainstream: Drag Cultures and RuPaul's Drag Race.- Chapter 4. "Go pick up a book and read": Art and Legitimacy in RuPaul's Drag Race.- Chapter 5. North American Universalism in RuPaul's Drag Race: Stereotypes, Linguicism, and the Construction of 'Puerto Rican Queens'.- Chapter 6. Spicy. Exotic. Creature. Representations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities on RuPaul's Drag Race.- Chapter 7. The Werk that Remains: Drag and the Mining of the Idealized Female Form.- Chapter 8. Big-Girls Don't Cry: Portrayls of the Fat Body in RuPaul's Drag Race.- Chapter 9. "I Am The Drag Whisperer." Notes from the Front Line of a Cultural Phenomenon.- Chapter 10. Sissy That Performance Script! The Queer Pedagogy of RuPaul's Drag Race.- Chapter 11. Super Troopers: The Homonormative Regime of Visibility in RuPaul's Drag Race.- Chapter 12. "Please, Come to Brazil!" The Practices of Brazilian RuPaul's Drag Race Brazilian Fandom.- Chapter 13. Reception of Queer Content and Stereotypes among Young People in Monterrey, Mexico.- Chapter 14. Mainstreaming the Transgressive: Greek Audiences' Readings of Drag Culture through the Consumption of RuPaul's Drag Race.- Chapter 15. RuPaul's Drag Race and the Reconceptualization of Queer Communities and Publics.- Chapter 16. Digital Extensions, Experiential Extensions and Hair Extensions: RuPaul's Drag Race and the New Media Environment.- Chapter 17. What Can Drag Do for Me? The Multifaceted Influences of RuPaul's Drag Race on the Perth Drag Scene.- Chapter 18. "If You Can't Love Yourself, How in the Hell You Gonna Love Somebody Else?" Drag TV and Self-love Discourse.- Chapter 19. "We're All Born Naked and the Rest Is Drag": The Performativity of Bodies Constructed inDigital Networks.
About the author
Niall Brennan has a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where his research focused on the national and global implications of the Brazilian television mini-series since Brazil’s re-democratization. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA.
David Gudelunas holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, USA and is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of Communication at the University of Tampa, USA.
Summary
The first book to provide a global view on the RuPaul’s Drag Race phenomenon
Offers critical perspectives on the program and its relationship to larger questions of LGBTQ culture
Includes contributions from scholars, performers, and people involved with the program alike
