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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"RuPaul’s Drag Race"”.
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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.
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“Mother has arrived!” : History, Race, and Family as Vehicles in RuPaul’s Drag Race’s Legacy Building
This thesis focuses on the reality tv show RuPaul’s Drag Race and its legacy building. The show is a popular competition show for professional drag queens. In this study I show how RuPaul’s Drag Race engages in building a legacy of drag and posits itself as the ambassador of drag for mainstream …
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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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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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Gay Boy and Playboy Revues: Constructing U.S. Queer Collectivities in Networks of Peripatetic Burlesque and Nightclub Drag Performers, 1933–1939
<p>Across the United States, in the mid-1930s, drag made a transition, along with much other entertainment, from vaudeville into night clubs. There, concomitant with developing notions of gender and sexuality, it became increasingly associated with the contemporary expressions of drag that we see …