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[Commlist] New Book: The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race edited by Cameron Crookston

Tue Mar 09 15:38:40 GMT 2021





Intellect is pleased to announce that */The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race: Why Are We All Gagging? <https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-cultural-impact-of-rupauls-drag-race>/*, edited by Cameron Crookston, is now available in ebook and hardback.

/The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race/ is a collection of original material that goes beyond simple analysis of the show and examines the profound effect that /RuPaul’s Drag Race/ has had on the cultures that surround it: audience cultures, economics, branding, queer politics and all points in between. What was once a cult show marketed primarily to gay men, /Drag Race/ has drawn both praise and criticism for its ability to market itself to broader, straighter and increasingly younger fans. The show’s depiction of drag as both a celebrated form of entertainment and as a potentially lucrative career path, has created an explosion of aspiring queens in unprecedented numbers and has had far-reaching impacts on drag as both an art form and a career.

Contributors include scholars based in the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and South Africa. The contributions are interdisciplinary, as well as international. The editor invited submissions from scholars in theatre and performance studies, English literature, cultural anthropology, media studies, linguistics, sociology and marketing. What he envisaged was an examination of the wider cultural impacts that /RuPaul’s Drag Race/ has had. What he received was a rich and diverse engagement with the question of how /Drag Race/ has affected local, live cultures, fan cultures, queer representation and the very fabric of drag as an art form in popular cultural consciousness.

This original collection, with its variety of topics and approaches, is a critical appraisal of /RuPaul’s Drag Race/ at an important point of the programme’s run, as well as of the growing industries around RPDR, including DragCon and drag queen’s post-show careers in the on- and offline world.
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*_Table of Contents
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*Acknowledgements*
*Introduction: *Why Are We All Gagging? Unpacking the Cultural Impact of /RuPaul's Drag Race – //Cameron Crookston/
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*Chapter One:* Twerk It & Werk It: The Impact of /RuPaul’s Drag Race/ on Local Underground Drag Scenes – /Joshua Rivers/

*Chapter Two:* 'Change the Motherfucking World!': The Possibilities and Limitations of Activism in /RuPaul's Drag Race/ – /Ash Kinney d’Harcourt/
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/*Chapter Three:* Queering Africa: Bebe Zahara Benet's "African" Aesthetics and Performance – /Lwando Scott/
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/*Chapter Four:* 'Heather has Transitioned': Transgender and Non-Binary Contestants on /RuPaul’s Drag Race/ – /K. Woodzick/
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/*Chapter Five:* How /Drag Race/ Created a Monster: The Future of Drag and the Backward Temporality of /The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula/ – /Aaron J. Stone/
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/*Chapter Six:* RuPaul’s Drag Race: Between Cultural Branding and Consumer Culture – /Mario Campana and Katherine Duffy/
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/*Chapter Seven:* RuPaul’s Franchise: Moving Toward a Political Economy of Drag Queening – /Ray LeBlanc/
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/*Chapter Eight:* Legend, Icon, Star: Cultural Production and Commodification in /RuPaul’s Drag Race/ – /Laura Friesen/
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/*Chapter Nine:* Repetition, Recitation and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo: Miss Vanjie and the Culture-Producing Power of Performative Speech in /RuPaul's Drag Race/ – /Allan S. Taylor/
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/*Chapter Ten:* It’s Too Late to Rupaulogize: The Lackluster Defense of an Occasional Unlistener – /Timothy Oleksiak/
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/*Chapter Eleven:* 'This is a Movement!': How RuPaul Markets Drag Through DragCon Keynote Addresses – /Carl Schotmiller/


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www.intellectbooks.com/the-cultural-impact-of-rupauls-drag-race
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