RuPaul's drag race and the shifting visibility of drag culture : the boundaries of reality TV / Niall Brennan, David Gudelunas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brennan, Niall (Niall Patrick), editor.

Contributor:

Gudelunas, David, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

RuPaul's drag race (Television program : 2009- )--Influence.

RuPaul's drag race (Television program : 2009- ).

Reality television programs--Social aspects.

Reality television programs.

Female impersonators on television.

Sexual minorities on television.

Subculture.

LGBTQ+ television.

LGBTQ+ people.

Physical Description:

xiii, 309 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 22 cm

Place of Publication:

Cham : Palgrave MacMillan, [2017]

Summary:

This volume identifies and interrogates the ways in which RuPaul's Drag Race (RPDR) has transformed the visibility of drag culture in the US and internationally, as well as how the program has changed understandings of reality TV. The collection entails works whose aim is to address how drag has become a significant aspect of LGBTQ experience and identity globally vis-à-vis RPDR, and how RPDR has altered a media landscape in which competition and reality itself are understood as given.

Contents:

Drag Culture, Global Participation and RuPaul's Drag Race / Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas

Part I. Representation and the parameters of drag identity: The "RuPaulitics" of Subjectification in RuPaul's Drag Race / Julia Yudelman. Contradictions Between the Subversive and the Mainstream: Drag Cultures and RuPaul's Drag Race/ Niall Brennan. "Pick up a book and go read": Art and Legitimacy in RuPaul's Drag Race / Dieter Brusselaers. North American Universalism in RuPaul's Drag Race: Stereotypes, Linguicism, and the Construction of "Puerto Rican Queens" / Joanna McIntyre and Damien W. Riggs. Spicy. Exotic. Creature. Representations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities on RuPaul's Drag Race / Sarah Tucker Jenkins. The Werk That Remains: Drag and the Mining of the Idealized Female Form / Amy L. Darnell and Ahoo Tabatabai. Big-Girls Don't Cry: Portrayals of the Fat Body in RuPaul's Drag Race / Ami Pomerantz

Part II. Drag culture, community and belonging: "I Am the Drag Whisperer": Notes from the Front Line of a Cultural Phenomenon / Rob Rosiello. Sissy That Performance Script! The Queer Pedagogy of RuPaul's Drag Race / Colin Whitworth. Super Troopers: The Homonormative Regime of Visibility in RuPaul's Drag Race / Anna Antonia Ferrante. "Please Come to Brazil!" The Practices of RuPaul's Drag Race's Brazilian Fandom / Makya Castellano and Heitor Leal Machado. Reception of Queer Content and Stereotypes Among Young People in Monterrey, Mexico: RuPaul's Drag Race / Nazar Ali de la Garza Villarreal, Carolina Valdez García and Grecia Karina Rodríguez Fernández. Mainstreaming the Transgressive: Greek Audiences' Readings of Drag Culture Through the Consumption of RuPaul's Drag Race / Despina Chronaki. RuPaul's Drag Race and the Reconceptualisation of Queer Communities and Publics / Kate O'Halloran

Part III. RuPaul's drag race, globalization and social media: Digital Extensions, Experiential Extensions and Hair Extensions: RuPaul's Drag Race and the New Media Environment / David Gudelunas. What Can Drag Do for Me? The Multifaceted Influences of RuPaul's Drag Race on the Perth Drag Scene / Claire Alexander. "If You Can't Love Yourself, How in the Hell You Gonna Love Somebody Else?" Drag TV and Self-Love Discourse / Chelsea Daggett. "We're All Born Naked and the Rest Is Drag": The Performativity of Bodies Constructed in Digital Networks / Ronaldo Henn, Felipe Viero Kolinski Machado and Christian Gonzatti.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783319506173

331950617X

OCLC:

962873595