The makeup of RuPaul's Drag Race
Subtitle: essays on the queen of reality shows
By: edited by Jim Daems
Publisher: McFarland; McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
ISBN-13: 9780786495078
Subjects: Female impersonators; Impersonation; Female impersonators on television; Transgender people; RuPaul's drag race (Television program : 2009- ); Sexual minorities on television; RuPaul's drag U (Television program : 2010-2012); Gender identity
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 191-200) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: RuPaul's ambivalent appropriation of pop culture / Jim Daems; title: Representing gender, race and realness: the television world of America's next drag superstars / Mary Marcel; title: Of fish and feminists: homonormative misogyny and the trans*queen / Laurie Norris; title: Dragging with an accent: linguistic stereotypes, language barriers and translingualism / Libby Anthony; title: Policing the proper queer subject: RuPaul's drag race in the neoliberal "post" moment / Kai Kohlsdorf; title: "For your next drag challenge," you must do something: playfulness without rules / Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns; title: Cover, girl: branding Puerto Rican drag in 21st-century U.S. popular culture / R. Gabriel Mayora; title: "Draguating" to normal: camp and homonormative politics / Josh Morrison; title: Of women and queens: gendered realities and re-education in RuPaul's drag empire / Carolyn Chernoff; title: The prime of Miss RuPaul Charles: allusion, betrayal and charismatic pedagogy / David J. Fine and Emily Shreve; title: About the contributors.