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Drag
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Author : Roger Baker
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 1995
Drag written by Roger Baker and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995 with Performing Arts categories.
A concise history of the drag tradition—from 13th century to today Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of transvestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan. In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens. Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelling appearances in underground John Waters films. Music, too, has been profoundly influenced by drag sensibility, from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Rocky Horror Picture Show to Boy George and RuPaul (the self-proclaimed Supermodel of the World). Tracing drag tradition from the Golden Age of stage transvestism during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in England to the current quasi-drag inclinations of American grunge bands, Drag is an entertaining overview of this popular and complex medium.
Drag
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Author : Frank Decaro
language : en
Publisher: Rizzoli Publications
Release Date : 2019-04-30
Drag written by Frank Decaro and has been published by Rizzoli Publications this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-04-30 with Design categories.
Drag celebrates the fabulous current and historical influence of drag, and its talented and inspiring performers. Since man first walked the Earth...in heels, no other art form has wielded as unique an influence on pop culture as Drag. Drag artists have now sashayed their way to snatch the crowns as the Queens of mainstream entertainment. Through informative and witty essays chronicling over 100 years of drag, readers will embark on a Priscilla-like journey through pop culture, from television shows like The Milton Berle Show, Bosom Buddies, and RuPaul's Drag Race, films like Some Like It Hot, To Wong Foo..., and Tootsie, and Broadway shows like Hedwig and the Angry Inch, La Cage aux Folles, and Kinky Boots. With stops in cities around the globe, and packed with interviews and commentaries on the dramas, joys, and love that "make-up" a life in wigs and heels, Drag features contributions from today's most groundbreaking and popular artists, including Bianca del Rio, Miss Coco Peru, Hedda Lettuce, Lypsinka, and Varla Jean Merman, as well as notable performers as Harvey Fierstein and Charles Busch. It includes more than 100 photos--many from performers' personal collections, and a comprehensive timeline of drag "herstory."
Reframing Drag
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Author : Kayte Stokoe
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2019-11-19
Reframing Drag written by Kayte Stokoe and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-19 with Social Science categories.
Reframing Drag provides a critical survey of French and Anglo-American queer and feminist theorizations of drag performance, placing these approaches in a dialogue with contemporary drag practice and the representation of drag in three literary texts. Challenging pervasive assumptions circulating in existing queer and feminist analyses of drag performance, the author identifi es and questions three recurring ideas which have shaped the landscape of drag research: the argument that drag performances either uphold or subvert oppressive gender norms, the assumption that drag involves performing as the ‘opposite sex’, and the belief that drag can shed light on gender performativity. Informed by a range of gender and queer theory, this work contends that an intersectional, transfeminist approach to drag performance can provide richer, more nuanced understandings of drag and, unlike the ‘opposite sex’ narrative, acknowledges the gender diversity at work in current drag scenes.
Contemporary Drag Practices And Performers
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Author : Mark Edward
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2020-03-19
Contemporary Drag Practices And Performers written by Mark Edward and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-03-19 with Performing Arts categories.
In recent years drag performance has moved from the fringes to emerge as a mainstream phenomenon, showcased on TV shows in the US and the UK. This collection offers a diverse range of critical engagements by drag performers, makers, scholars and writers reflecting on work from the UK, USA, Israel, Germany and Australia. Moving beyond discussions of gender theory, the essays consider contemporary drag performance practices, connecting them to the histories, communities and politics that produced them. Chapters range across discussions of drag kings in the US, UK and drag and activism; the influence of RuPaul on the generation of new forms of work in New York; transfeminist critiques of drag; 'bio'/faux queens; engagements with race and ethnicity through drag performance; drag andragogy; audience concerns; drag intersections with animal personas, and how drag performance relates to personal narratives of history and identity. Collectively the contributions focus on drag as a mode of performance that is diverse and that uncorsets the easy thought that drag is simply a cross dressing man in a dress or a woman in a suit.
The Bodies Of Others
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Author : Selby Wynn Schwartz
language : en
Publisher: Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Qu
Release Date : 2019
The Bodies Of Others written by Selby Wynn Schwartz and has been published by Triangulations: Lesbian/Gay/Qu this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Drama categories.
The first book-length exploration of drag dance in the U.S.
Why Drag
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Author : Magnus Hastings
language : en
Publisher: Chronicle Books
Release Date : 2016-05-17
Why Drag written by Magnus Hastings and has been published by Chronicle Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-05-17 with Photography categories.
For over a decade, Magnus Hastings has been photographing the world's greatest drag superstars and asking each of them a simple question: Why drag? The result is this mesmerizing volume in which the queens strut their stuff and reflect on their shared passion through a mixture of quips and philosophizing. Subjects include icons of reality TV and underground drag royalty, and photographs range from the divine to the trashy. Featuring the likes of Bianca Del Rio and Courtney Act, this collection is a beautiful celebration of drag as an art form and an exhilarating exploration of what drag means to its greatest artists.
The Drag Queen Anthology
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Author : Lisa Underwood
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2004
The Drag Queen Anthology written by Lisa Underwood and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
The Drag Queen Anthology: The Absolutely Fabulous but Flawlessly Customary World of Female Impersonators examines the phenomenon of male-to-female gender performance and the people who live it. This provocative collection of original essays explores the possibilities, limitations, ironies, and controversies surrounding men who perform as women to an audience that knows the truth but celebrates the illusion. The book's contributors call on extensive backgrounds in sociology, anthropology, theater, literatureeven military studiesand use a variety of approaches to address common themes and genres of presentation, performance, and style in a wide range of historical settings and cultures.
Drag Histories Herstories And Hairstories
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Author : Mark Edward
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Release Date : 2021-01-14
Drag Histories Herstories And Hairstories written by Mark Edward and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-01-14 with Performing Arts categories.
Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and memory. The book examines drag histories and what drag does with history, how it enacts or tells stories about remembering and the past. Featuring work about the USA, UK and Ireland, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Barbados, this book allows the reader to engage with a range of archival research including camp and history; ethnicity and drag; queering ballet through drag; the connections between drag king and queen history; queering pantomime performance; drag and military veterans; Puerto Rican drag performers and historical film.
U S Drag
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Author : Gina Gionfriddo
language : en
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service Inc
Release Date : 2006
U S Drag written by Gina Gionfriddo and has been published by Dramatists Play Service Inc this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Drama categories.
This is a story that needs to be told, and Weinraub--a longtime New York Times reporter--does so with moving clarity. A substantial, punch-packing morality thriller. Don't miss! --Time Out NY. A gripping work that illuminates a shameful period in American
The Political Aesthetics Of Drag
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Author : Shaka McGlotten
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2021-08-19
The Political Aesthetics Of Drag written by Shaka McGlotten and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-08-19 with Drag shows categories.
The Political Aesthetics of Drags uses portraits of artists and activists who use drag in Israel/Palestine and Berlin. Rather than take a more traditional academic approach, McGlotten develops the thematic threads of the book through the stories and lives of the performers. Themes emerge through the resonances that are generated in and between the portraits, as the lives and political and creative work of the performers converge with one another in and around their creative practices, everyday activities, their views on the changing nature of their social spaces, and the violences they necessarily navigate. The participants' stories are also interwoven with the author's own experiences conducting the research and particularly the ways that experiences of personal loss shaped their identity as a researcher.