Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
Chapter 1. Drag Culture, Global Participation and RuPaul's Drag Race - Niall Brennan and David Gudelunas
Part I. REPRESENTATION AND THE PARAMETERS OF DRAG IDENTITY
Chapter 2. The 'RuPaulitics' of Subjectification in RuPaul's Drag Race - Julie Yudelman
Chapter 3. Contradictions between the Subversive and the Mainstream: Drag Cultures and RuPaul's Drag Race - Niall Brennan
Chapter 4. "Go pick up a book and read" Art and Legitimacy in RuPaul's Drag Race - Dieter Brusselaers
Chapter 5. North American Universalism in RuPaul's Drag Race: Stereotypes, Linguicism, and the Construction of 'Puerto Rican Queens' - Joanna McIntyre and Damien W. Riggs
Chapter 6. Spicy. Exotic. Creature. Representations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities on RuPaul's Drag Race - Sarah Tucker Jenkins
Chapter 7. The Werk that Remains: Drag and the Mining of the Idealized Female Form - Amy L. Darnell and Ahoo Tabatabai
Chapter 8. Big-Girls Don't Cry: Portrayls of the Fat Body in RuPaul's Drag Race - Ami Pomerantz
Part II. DRAG CULTURE, COMMUNITY AND BELONGING
Chapter 9. "I Am The Drag Whisperer." Notes from the Front Line of a Cultural Phenomenon - Rob Rosiello
Chapter 10. Sissy That Performance Script The Queer Pedagogy of RuPaul's Drag Race - Colin Whitworth
Chapter 11. Super Troopers: The Homonormative Regime of Visibility in RuPaul's Drag Race - Anna Antonia Ferrante
Chapter 12. "Please, Come to Brazil " The Practices of Brazilian RuPaul's Drag Race Brazilian Fandom - Mayka Castellano and Heitor Leal Machado
Chapter 13. Reception of Queer Content and Stereotypes among Young People in Monterrey, Mexico - Nazar Ali de La Garza Villarreal, Carolina Valdez Garc a and Grecia Karina Rodr guez Fern ndez
Chapter 14. Mainstreaming the Transgressive: Greek Audiences' Readings of Drag Culture through the Consumption of RuPaul's Drag Race - Despina Chronaki
Chapter 15. RuPaul's Drag Race and the Reconceptualization of Queer Communities and Publics - Kate O'Halloran
Part III. RUPAUL'S DRAG RACE, GLOBALIZATION AND SOCIAL MEDIA
Chapter 16. Digital Extensions, Experiential Extensions and Hair Extensions: RuPaul's Drag Race and the New Media Environment - David Gudelunas
Chapter 17. What Can Drag Do for Me? The Multifaceted Influences of RuPaul's Drag Race on the Perth Drag Scene - Claire Alexander
Chapter 18. "If You Can't Love Yourself, How in the Hell You Gonna Love Somebody Else?" Drag TV and Self-love Discourse - Chelsea Daggett
Chapter 19. "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
Synopsis
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
Synopsis
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.