Performance Identities of Lady Gaga

Critical Essays

Häftad, Engelska, 2012

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Beskrivning

Three years after entering the pop music scene, Lady Gaga became the most well-known pop star in the world. These thirteen critical essays explore Lady Gaga's body of work through the interdisciplinary filter of performance identity and cover topics such as gender and sexuality, body commodification, visual body rhetoric, drag performance, homosexuality and heteronormativity, Surrealism and the theatre of cruelty, the carnivalesque, monstrosity, imitation and parody, human rights, and racial politics. Of particular interest is the way that Lady Gaga's œuvre, however popular, strange, raw or controversial, enters into the larger sociopolitical discourse, challenging the status quo and altering our perceptions of reality.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2012-06-04
Mått:152 x 229 x 14 mm
Vikt:376 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:271
Förlag:McFarland & Co Inc
ISBN:9780786468300

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Musikböcker inom Kultur

Mer om författaren

Richard J. Gray II is an assistant professor of French at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. His fields of study include interdisciplinary approaches to French literary studies, language, film, cultural studies, and women’s studies. He lives in Ashland, Ohio.

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“excellent”—The Journal of Popular Culture.

Innehållsförteckning

Table of ContentsPreface Introduction The Sex of Lady GagaMATHIEU DEFLEM Lady Gaga’s Bodies: Buying and Selling The Fame MonsterELIZABETH KATE SWITAJ Body Language and “Bad Romance”: The Visual Rhetoric of the ArtistJENNIFER M. SANTOS What a Drag: Lady Gaga, Jo Calderone and the Politics of RepresentationHEATHER DUERRE HUMANN Follow the Glitter Way: Lady Gaga and CampKATRIN HORN Lady Gaga and the Wolf: “Little Red Riding Hood,” The Fame Monster and Female SexualityJENNIFER M. WOOLSTON Surrealism, the Theatre of Cruelty and Lady GagaRICHARD J. GRAY II Rabelais Meets Vogue: The Construction of Carnival, Beauty and GrotesqueDAVID ANNANDALE The Fame Monster: The Monstrous Construction of Lady GagaANN T. TORRUSIO The Appropriation of the Madonna AestheticREBECCA M. LUSH Performing Pop: Lady Gaga, “Weird Al” Yankovic and Parodied PerformanceMATTHEW R. TURNER “I Hope When I’m Dead I’ll Be Considered an Icon”: Shock Performance and Human RightsKARLEY ADNEY Whiteness and the Politics of “Post-Racial” AmericaLAURA GRAY-ROSENDALE, STEPHANIE CAPALDO, SHERRI CRAIG and EMILY DAVALOS Works Cited About the Contributors Index