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

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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