The Cultural Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race
Why Are We All Gagging?
Distributed for Intellect Ltd
240 pages
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11 halftones
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6 3/4 x 9 1/4
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Table of Contents

Contents
1. Twerk It & Werk It: The Impact of RuPaul’s Drag Race on Local Underground Drag Scenes - Joshua Rivers
2. ’Change the Motherfucking World!’: The Possibilities and Limitations of Activism in RuPaul’s Drag Race - Ash Kinney d’Harcourt
3. Queering Africa: Bebe Zahara Benet’s "African" Aesthetics and Performance - Lwando Scott
4. ’Heather has Transitioned’: Transgender and Non-Binary Contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race - K. Woodzick
5. How Drag Race Created a Monster: The Future of Drag and the Backward Temporality of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula - Aaron J. Stone
6. RuPaul’s Drag Race: Between Cultural Branding and Consumer Culture - Mario Campana and Katherine Duffy
7. RuPaul’s Franchise: Moving Toward a Political Economy of Drag Queening - Ray LeBlanc
8. Legend, Icon, Star: Cultural Production and Commodification in RuPaul’s Drag Race - Laura Friesen
9. Repetition, Recitation and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo: Miss Vanjie and the Culture-Producing Power of Performative Speech in RuPaul’s Drag Race - Allan S. Taylor
10. It’s Too Late to Rupaulogize: The Lackluster Defense of an Occasional Unlistener - Timothy Oleksiak
11. ’This is a Movement!’: How RuPaul Markets Drag Through DragCon Keynote Addresses - Carl Schotmiller
2. ’Change the Motherfucking World!’: The Possibilities and Limitations of Activism in RuPaul’s Drag Race - Ash Kinney d’Harcourt
3. Queering Africa: Bebe Zahara Benet’s "African" Aesthetics and Performance - Lwando Scott
4. ’Heather has Transitioned’: Transgender and Non-Binary Contestants on RuPaul’s Drag Race - K. Woodzick
5. How Drag Race Created a Monster: The Future of Drag and the Backward Temporality of The Boulet Brothers’ Dragula - Aaron J. Stone
6. RuPaul’s Drag Race: Between Cultural Branding and Consumer Culture - Mario Campana and Katherine Duffy
7. RuPaul’s Franchise: Moving Toward a Political Economy of Drag Queening - Ray LeBlanc
8. Legend, Icon, Star: Cultural Production and Commodification in RuPaul’s Drag Race - Laura Friesen
9. Repetition, Recitation and Vanessa Vanjie Mateo: Miss Vanjie and the Culture-Producing Power of Performative Speech in RuPaul’s Drag Race - Allan S. Taylor
10. It’s Too Late to Rupaulogize: The Lackluster Defense of an Occasional Unlistener - Timothy Oleksiak
11. ’This is a Movement!’: How RuPaul Markets Drag Through DragCon Keynote Addresses - Carl Schotmiller
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