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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• 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

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.

“excellent”—The Journal of Popular Culture.

• 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