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RuPaul's Drag Race and the Toronto Drag Scene
The debut of the television show RuPaul’s Drag Race (Barbato, Bailey, and Charles) in 2009 marked the start of a new drag boom. The program’s commercial success throughout the 2010s brought drag performance into the mainstream cultural arena, prompting a host of effects on the historically …
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That's Ru-volting! how reality TV reimagines perceptions of American success
… of Americans experiencing success. RuPaul’s Drag Race is a prime example. The Logo TV reality show, devoted to finding “America’s Next Drag Superstar,” transforms the historically maligned drag queen from a hegemonic masculine failure into a celebrated superstar. Created, coproduced, …
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Drag, Drugs, and Demonstrations: Cultural Subversion under Capitalism
<p>In this essay, I will define cultural institutionalization and articulate the ways in which the phenomenon modulates subversive countercultural movements and integrates them into Western, capitalist cultural structures. I will then illustrate my theory of cultural institutionalization by …
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Mother of the house of no shame: The queer economy of Rupaul’s Drag Race
The student, Ted Faust, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2019-06-13 at 15:37.