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The performance identities of Lady Gaga : critical essays
Title
The performance identities of Lady Gaga : critical essays / edited by Richard J. Gray II.
ISBN
9780786468300 (softcover : alk. paper)
0786468300 (softcover : alk. paper)
Published
Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, c2012.
Physical Description
vi, 265 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
February 21, 2013
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 235-251) and index.
Contents
Sex of Lady Gaga / Mathieu Deflem
Lady Gaga's bodies : buying and selling The fame monster / Elizabeth Kate Switaj
Body language and "bad romance" : the visual rhetoric of the artist / Jennifer M. Santos
What a drag : Lady Gaga, Jo Calderone and the politics of representation / Heather Duerre Humann
Follow the glitter way : Lady Gaga and camp / Katrin Horn
Lady Gaga and the wolf : "Little Red Riding Hood," The fame monster and female sexuality / Jennifer M. Woolston
Surrealism, and the theatre of cruelty and Lady Gaga / Richard J. Gray II
Rabelais meets Vogue : the construction of carnival, beauty and grotesque / David Annandale
Fame monster : the monstrous construction of Lady Gaga / Ann T. Torrusio
Appropriation of the Madonna aesthetic / Rebecca M. Lush
Performing pop : Lady Gaga, "Weird Al" Yankovic and parodied performance / Matthew R. Turner
"I hope when I'm dead I'll be considered an icon" : shock performance and human rights / Karley Adney
Whiteness and the politics of "post-racial" America / Laura Gray-Rosendale ... [et al.].
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