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Hentzi, Gary. “Paris Is Burning.” Film Quarterly 45.2 (1991): 35-37. Web. 18 November 2013.
What could be more paradoxical than a subculture that celebrates the fanatically precise imitation of the mainstream?
Now the ultimate measure of success is to be able to walk out of a ball and into the crowd on the street without being identified…
Now the ultimate measure of success is to be able to walk out of a ball and into the crowd on the street without being identified…
Schacht, Steven. “Paris is Burning: How Society’s Stratification System Make Drag Queens of Us All.” Race, Gender, Class. 7.1 (2000): 147-166. Web. 18 November 2013.
When gay black mean convincingly present themselves as successful business executives...it throws into question some of our society’s more fundamental values and corresponding realities.
That which was previously thought of as so meaningful is…
That which was previously thought of as so meaningful is…
Egbatan, Mine. “Paris is Burning: A Critique of Gender.” Fe Dergi: Feminist Eleştiri. (2011): 16-21. Web. 18 November 2013.
This makes drags significant in understanding their potential in changing dominant cultural norms based on the assumption that sex is always already gender.
He is male biologically but this does not prevent him from teaching how to model to other…
He is male biologically but this does not prevent him from teaching how to model to other…
Gregory, Christian. "Performative Transformation Of the Public Queer in Paris Is Burning." Film Criticism. 23.1 (1998): 18-37. Web. 18 November 2013.
This oversight is particularly telling if we consider the way that Paris also became the occasion for a discussion among academic cultural critics of racial, sexual, and class identities of the film's performers—and of subjects of capitalist culture…
Rhyne, Ragan. "Racializing White Drag." Journal of Homosexuality. 46.3 (2004): 181-194. Web. 18 November 2013.
Understanding the documentary subjects’ (poor, urban, black and Latino drag queens) performances of bourgeois femininity as coded via standards of unmarked whiteness,
bell hooks, for instance, argued that the film exploited the ways in which…
bell hooks, for instance, argued that the film exploited the ways in which…
Harper, Phillip. "'The Subversive Edge': Paris Is Burning, Social Critique and the Limits of Subjective Agency." The John Hopkins University Press. 24.2 (1994): 90-103. Web. 18 November 2013.
Realness styling itself appears as the effect of a motivated regimen undertaken by specific identifiable agents, namely, the “voguers” who achieve “personality overhauls” by actively “constructing their identities”.
The effective subjectivity…
The effective subjectivity…