Simon Doonan: Drag - The Complete Story

UK 2024, 240 pp. illustrated, brochure, € 22.95
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Laurence King
Drag is transformation, communication, and, above all, exaggeration, where gender non-conformity is the plat du jour. This fearless book observes this increasingly complex world by exploring drag's journey - from the surprising, to the sophisticated, to the utterly bizarre - through the 20th century and up to the present day. With witty text, dazzling photography, and corralled into thematic chapters, ... Weiterlesen

Sasha Velour: The Big Reveal

An Illustrated Manifesto of Drag. UK 2023, 240 pp., hardbound, € 59.95
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Harper Collins
This book is a quilt, piecing together memoir, history, and theory into a living portrait of an artist and an art. Within these pages, illustrated throughout with photos and original artwork, Sasha Velour illuminates drag as a unique form of expression with a rich history and a revolutionary spirit. Each chapter strips off a new layer, removing one tantalizing glove ... Weiterlesen

Susan Sontag: Notes on Camp

UK 2018, 64 pp., pb., € 7.95
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Penguin UK
»The ultimate Camp statement: it's good because it's awful.« - These two classic essays were the first works of criticism to break down the boundaries between »high« and »low« culture, and made Susan Sontag a literary sensation.

David M. Halperin: How to Be Gay

USA 2014, 549 pp., brochure, € 39.95
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Harvard University Press
If you assert that male homosexuality is a cultural practice, expressive of a unique subjectivity and a distinctive relation to mainstream society, people will immediately protest. Such an idea is just a stereotype - ridiculously simplistic, politically irresponsible, and morally suspect. The world acknowledges gay male culture as a fact but denies it as a truth. The author - pioneer ... Weiterlesen

Peter Werner: Me and My Idol

D 2012, 126 S., Farbe, geb., € 40.99
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Bruno Gmünder
In dieser schwulen Hommage an große Frauen drückt sich die Faszination von Schwulen für ihre Idole aus. Erst wenn eine Diva oder ein aufstrebendes Starlet auf den Bühnen der schwulen Subkultur von Drag Queens imitiert oder parodiert wird, hat sie es wirklich zum Star geschafft, bekommt sie dadurch quasi den schwulen Adelstitel verpasst. In »Me and My Idol« lichtete Peter ... Weiterlesen

Moe Meyer: An Archaeology of Posing

Essays on Camp, Drag, and Sexuality. USA 2010, 221pp., brochure, € 28.69
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University of Wisconsin Press
This book compiles two decades of new and previously published writing on gay culture by one of the field's most provocative and outspoken critics. Diverging from the text-based premise of most queer theory, Meyer utilizes performance studies and interpretive anthropology to examine camp and drag performances in the spaces in which they appear. He explores a variety of topics - ... Weiterlesen

Absolutely Fabulous: GAY (Christmas Special): DVD

UK 2002, 53 Min., OF, engl. UT, € 19.99
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Patsy is in her element. Her brand new concept fashion store, Jeremy's - »the shop for rich bitches whose faces have been pulled so tight they can't see what they're buying« - schould get her in the front row of the champagne tent at least. Meanwhile, Eddie is eager to see her lovely son, Serge, again after 12 years - ... Weiterlesen

José Esteban Munoz: Disidentifications

Queers of Color and the Performance of Politics. USA 1999, 227 pp. with numerous b/w photographs, brochure, € 39.95
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University of Minnesota Press
There is more to identity than identifying with one's culture or standing solidly against it. José Esteban Munoz looks at how those outside the racial and sexual mainstream negotiate majority culture - not by aligning themselves with or against exclusionary works but rather by transforming these works for their own cultural purposes. Munoz calls this process »disidentification«, and through a ... Weiterlesen

Fabio Cleto (ed.): Camp

Queer Aesthetics and the Performing Subject: A Reader. UK 1999, 523 pp., brochure, € 55.99
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Edinburgh University Press
The book addresses the multi-layered issue of camp, whose inexhaustible breadth of reference and theoretical relevance to the issues taken up by academic research in recent years have made it one of the most salient and challenging issues on the contemporary critical stage. Reassessing the role and significance of the finest essays on camp written by leading intellectuals in cultural ... Weiterlesen