{"product_id":"contemporary-drag-practices-and-performers-9781350319196","title":"Contemporary Drag Practices and Performers","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMark Edward\u003c\/b\u003e is a pracademic and Reader in Creative Arts at Edge Hill University, UK. His publications include \u003ci\u003eMesearch and the Performing Body\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). Professionally he has worked for Rambert Dance Company and performed with the renowned American performance artist Penny Arcade in her work \u003ci\u003eBad Reputation \u003c\/i\u003e(2004) and in Jeremy Goldstein's \u003ci\u003eTruth to Power Café\u003c\/i\u003e (2018). Mark is also the writer and producer of the immersive performance and film installation \u003ci\u003eCouncil House Movie Star (\u003c\/i\u003e2012) featuring his drag persona Gale Force.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eStephen Farrier\u003c\/b\u003e is Reader in Theatre and Performance at The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. With Alyson Campbell he has coedited \u003ci\u003eQueer Dramaturgies: International Perspectives on Where Performance Leads Queer\u003c\/i\u003e (2015) as well as a themed edition of RIDE, The\u003ci\u003e Journal of Applied Theatre\u003c\/i\u003e and Performance named the Gender and Sexuality Issue'.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA necessary, nuanced and well heeled step in understanding the  scope, diversity and impact of our art. * Cheddar Gorgeous *\u003cbr\u003eThis is the drag book we have been waiting for: critical, entertaining, political. It provides us with a timely and much needed collection of analytical, provocative and engaging encounters with drag. Ranging widely over theoretical and methodological approaches, and drawing on and giving expression to a colourful cast of queens and kings, this book is a fabulous read with something for academics, activists, audiences and artistes alike. Unafraid to engage with the complexity of drag, it pushes at the paradoxes and potentialities of contemporary drag across diverse settings and in mainstream as well as countercultural formations. With a queer politics at its beating heart, it also puts drag to work in performing, challenging and understanding gender and sexuality in the 21st century. * Dr Cath Lambert, University of Warwick, UK *\u003cbr\u003eKick off your heels, peel down your stockings and get your complexly gendered bare feet on the gorgeous sticky floors of this fantastic book. Ferociously sexy, rigorously theorized and joyously kinky, \u003ci\u003eContemporary Drag Practices and Performers \u003c\/i\u003eis a major mapping of fierce gender-queer space. Take this book to bed right now and read it! * Tim Miller, performer and author of A Body in the O *\u003cbr\u003eOffers a nuanced cross-section of drag studies at a watershed moment when drag is increasingly being assimilated into mainstream Western visual and popular culture, and finding new homes in various cultural contexts, media and academic disciplines. As such, it is a valuable contribution to the literature in the field. * Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies *\u003cbr\u003eEdward and Farrier have edited a collection that offers both a taste of Drag for the uninitiated undergraduate and opens intriguing avenues for the more seasoned academic explorer and\/or performer. * New Theatre Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eList of illustrations Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Forward by Mark Ravenhill Introduction by Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier Chapter 1: Applying Foundation and Setting The Scene by Mark Edward and Stephen Farrier Chapter 2: ‘Dragging the Mainstream: RuPaul’s Drag Race and Moving Drag Practices Between the USA and the UK’ by Joe Parslow Chapter 3: ‘RACE FOR THE MONEY: The Influence of RuPaul's Drag Race on the Livelihood and Aesthetics of New York City's Drag Culture’ by Kalle Westerling  Chapter 4: ‘Hen.faChinoiserie Drag: Masquerading as the Oriental Other’ by Rosa Fong Chapter 5: ‘It’s Always Better Performing with the Troupe’: Space, Place, and Collective Activism’ by Jae Basiliere  Chapter 6: ‘Of Hills and Wheels: Tilda Death in the IDF Disabled Veterans’ Club’ by Raz Weiner Chapter 7: ‘A Transfeminist Critique of Drag Discourses and Performance Styles in Three National Contexts (US, France and UK): from RuPaul’s Drag Race to Bar Wotever’ by Kayte Stokoe  Chapter 8: ‘Not a cock in a frock but a Hole story.  Holestar and the mark of the bio-queens’ by Stephen Farrier Chapter 9: ‘Destabilisation through Celebration: Drag, Homage, and Challenges to Black Stereotypes in the Practice of Harold Offeh’ by Kieran Sellars  Chapter 10: ‘Gender Euphoria: Trans and Non-Binary Identities in Drag’ by Olympia Bukkakis Chapter 11:  ‘The Tranimal: Throwing Gender out of Drag?’ by Nick Cherryman Chapter 12: ‘Drag Kings and Queens of Higher Education’ by Mark Edward Chapter 13: ‘Drag publique: the spectacle of queerness, queer placelessness and the emaciated spectator’ by Allan Taylor Chapter 14: ‘\"Blessed is the fruit\" Drag Performance, Birthing, and Religious Identity’ by Chris Greenough \u0026amp; Nina Kane Notes Bibliography Index","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52084839022935,"sku":"9781350319196","price":35.38,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/contemporary-drag-practices-and-performers-9781350319196","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}