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Rafferty, Terrence. “Paris Is Burning.” The New Yorker. Conde Nast, 1991. Web. 16 Sept. 2013.

Canby, Vincent. “Review/Film; Aching to Be a Prima Donna, When You’re a Man.” The New York Times. The New York Times Company, 13 March 1991. Web. 16 Sept. 2013.

Travers, Peter. “Paris is Burning.” Rolling Stone. Rolling Stone, 13 March 1991. Web. 16 Sept. 2013

Ebert, Roger. “Paris Is Burning.” Roger Ebert. Ebert Digital LLC, 9 Aug. 1991. Web. 16 Sept. 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…

Turan, Kenneth. “Invitation to the Drag Ball.” Los Angeles Times. Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 1991. Web. 16 Sept. 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…

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…

Venus Xtravaganza and Octavia explain what they want their futures to look like and the normal lives they hope to live in comparison to the fabulous and unreal world of the balls.

Pepper Labeija talks about the culture of the balls and how each persons life brought them there. This is followed by an explanation of how the balls are like another world, comparable to Wonderland.