RuPauls Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture: The Boundaries o [Hardcover]

This book identifies and analyzes the ways in which RuPauls 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 RuPauls 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.

Chapter 1. Drag Culture, Global Participation and RuPauls Drag Race.- Chapter 2. The RuPaulitics of Subjectification in RuPauls Drag Race.- Chapter 3. Contradictions between the Subversive and the Mainstream: Drag Cultures and RuPauls Drag Race.- Chapter 4. Go pick up a book and read: Art and Legitimacy in RuPauls Drag Race.- Chapter 5. North American Universalism in RuPauls Drag Race: Stereotypes, Linguicism, and the Construction of Puerto Rican Queens.- Chapter 6. Spicy. Exotic. Creature. Representations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities on RuPauls Drag Race.- Chapter 7. The Werk that Remains: Drag and the Mining of the Idealized Female Form.- Chapter 8. Big-Girls Dont Cry: Portrayls of the Fat Body in RuPauls 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 RuPauls Drag Race.- Chapter 11. Super Troopers: The Homonormative Regime of Visibility in RuPauls Drag Race.- Chapter 12. Please, Come to Brazil! The Practices of Brazilian RuPauls Drag Race Brazilian FanlN