RuPaul's Drag Race and the cultural politics of fame. (2023)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by John Mercer, Charlie Sarson, Jamie Hakim.
• Editors: (Lecturer in film and media studies), Mercer, John; Sarson, Charlie; Hakim, Jamie
• Contents: <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">1. ‘Charisma, uniqueness, nerve and talent’: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the cultural politics of fame <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">John Mercer, Charlie Sarson and Jamie Hakim <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">2. From Paris is Burning to #dragrace: social media and the celebrification of drag culture <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">Zeena Feldman and Jamie Hakim <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">3. ‘Assume the position: two queens stand before me’: RuPaul as ultimate queen <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">Hazel Collie and Gemma Commane <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">4. Drag Celebrity Impersonation as Queer Caricature in The Snatch Game <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">Hannah Andrews <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">5. Rewriting ‘herstory’: Sasha Velour’s drag as art and activism <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">Renee Middlemost <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">6. ‘Labouring in the image’: celebrity, femininity, and the fully commodified self in the drag of Willam Belli <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">Rachel O’Connell <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">7. ‘No one is trash, no one is garbage, no one is cancelled’: the cultural politics of trauma, recovery and rage in RuPaul’s Drag Race <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">Debra Ferreday <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">8. Fifteen Seconds of Fame: RuPaul’s drag race, camp and ‘memeability’ <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: normal;">John Mercer and Charlie Sarson
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2023
• Extent: 1 online resource (114 pages)
• Subjects: 791.4572; Drag performance -- Social aspects -- United States
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000965339
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