Rupaul's Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture: The Boundaries of Reality TV

by Carolina Valdez García and Claire Alexander

This book identifies and analyzes the ways in which RuPaul's Drag Race has reshaped the visibility of drag culture in the US and internationally, as well as how the program has changed understandings of reality TV. This edited volume illustrates how drag has become a significant aspect of LGBTQ experience and identity globally through RuPaul's Drag Race, and how the show has reformed a media landscape in which competition and reality...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 331950617X
• ISBN13: 9783319506173
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.48 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.8" x 8.3"