RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture, 1st ed. 2017 The Boundaries of Reality TV

Chapter 1. Drag Culture, Global Participation and RuPaul’s Drag Race.- Chapter 2. The ‘RuPaulitics’ of Subjectification in RuPaul’s Drag Race.- Chapter 3. Contradictions between the Subversive and the Mainstream: Drag Cultures and RuPaul’s Drag Race.- Chapter 4. “Go pick up a book and read”: Art and Legitimacy in RuPaul’s Drag Race.- Chapter 5. North American Universalism in RuPaul’s Drag Race: Stereotypes, Linguicism, and the Construction of ‘Puerto Rican Queens’.- Chapter 6. Spicy. Exotic. Creature. Representations of Racial and Ethnic Minorities on RuPaul’s Drag Race.- Chapter 7. The Werk that Remains: Drag and the Mining of the Idealized Female Form.- Chapter 8. Big-Girls Don’t Cry: Portrayls of the Fat Body in RuPaul’s Drag Race.- Chapter 9. “I Am The Drag Whisperer.” Notes from the Front Line of a Cultural Phenomenon.- Chapter 10. Sissy That Performance Script! The Queer Pedagogy of RuPaul’s Drag Race.- Chapter 11. Super Troopers: The Homonormative Regime of Visibility in RuPaul’s Drag Race.- Chapter 12. “Please, Come to Brazil!” The Practices of Brazilian RuPaul’s Drag Race Brazilian Fandom.- Chapter 13. Reception of Queer Content and Stereotypes among Young People in Monterrey, Mexico.- Chapter 14. Mainstreaming the Transgressive: Greek Audiences' Readings of Drag Culture through the Consumption of RuPaul’s Drag Race.- Chapter 15. RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Reconceptualization of Queer Communities and Publics.- Chapter 16. Digital Extensions, Experiential Extensions and Hair Extensions: RuPaul’s Drag Race and the New Media Environment.- Chapter 17. What Can Drag Do for Me? The Multifaceted Influences of RuPaul’s Drag Race on the Perth Drag Scene.- Chapter 18. “If You Can’t Love Yourself, How in the Hell You Gonna Love Somebody Else?” Drag TV and Self-love Discourse.- Chapter 19. “We're All Born Naked and the Rest Is Drag”: The Performativity of Bodies Constructed inDigital Networks.

Niall Brennan has a PhD in Media and Communications from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, where his research focused on the national and global implications of the Brazilian television mini-series since Brazil’s re-democratization. He is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Communication at Fairfield University, Connecticut, USA.

David Gudelunas holds a PhD from the University of Pennsylvania, USA and is Dean of the College of Arts and Letters and Professor of Communication at the University of Tampa, USA.