Serving ‘Reality’ Television ‘Realness’: Reading RuPaul’s Drag Race and its Construction of Reality

Authors :: Jonathan Ward
Source :: Comparative American Studies An International Journal. 17:23-40
Publication Year :: 2020
Publisher :: Informa UK Limited, 2020.
Abstract: Despite the increasing visibility of queerness and queer folks in American popular culture, there is a concerning dissonance between this symbolic cultural progression, and the reality of queer liv...

Subjects :: Cultural Studies
Sociology and Political Science
General Arts and Humanities
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Visibility (geometry)
Popular culture
Race (biology)
Aesthetics
Reading (process)
Cognitive dissonance
Queer
Sociology
Reality television
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