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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 itself are understood as given. Taking on lenses addressing race, ethnicity, geographical origin, cultural identity, physicality and body image, and participation in drag culture across the globe, this volume offers critical, non-traditional, and first-hand perspectives on drag culture.

Culture --- United States --- Communication. --- Cultural and Media Studies. --- Film/TV Industry. --- Culture and Gender. --- Popular Culture. --- American Culture. --- Media and Communication. --- Communication, Primitive --- Mass communication --- Sociology --- Cultural studies --- Study and teaching. --- RuPaul's drag race (Television program : 2009- ) --- RuPaul's drag U (Television program : 2010-2012) --- Influence. --- Reality television programs --- Female impersonators on television. --- Social aspects. --- Television --- Reality-based television programs --- Reality shows (Television programs) --- Nonfiction television programs --- Motion pictures. --- Culture. --- Gender. --- United States-Study and teaching. --- Popular Culture . --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Cultural sociology --- Sociology of culture --- Civilization --- Popular culture --- Cinema --- Feature films --- Films --- Movies --- Moving-pictures --- Audio-visual materials --- Mass media --- Performing arts --- Social aspects --- History and criticism --- United States—Study and teaching. --- Sexual minorities on television. --- Subculture. --- Popular culture.