Drag (eBook)

A British History

Jacob Bloomfield (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2023
272 Seiten
University of California Press (Verlag)
9780520393332 (ISBN)

Infos

';A must-read for anyone interested in the history of drag performance.'Publishers WeeklyA rich and provocative history of drags importance in modern British culture. Drag: A British History is a groundbreaking study of the sustained popularity and changing forms of male drag performance in modern Britain. With this book, Jacob Bloomfield provides fresh perspectives on drag and recovers previously neglected episodes in the history of the art form. Despite its transgressive associations, drag has persisted as an intrinsic, and common, part of British popular culturedrag artists have consistently asserted themselves as some of the most renowned and significant entertainers of their day. As Bloomfield demonstrates, drag was also at the center of public discussions around gender and sexuality in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, from Victorian sex scandals to the permissive society of the 1960s. This compelling new history demythologizes drag, stressing its ordinariness while affirming its important place in British cultural heritage.

Inhalt

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 

Introduction 

1 Old Mother Riley and the Modern Dame 
2 Splinters: Cross-Dressing Ex-Servicemen on the Interwar Stage 
3 Danny La Rue: Conservative Drag in the “Permissive Society” 
4 Skirting the Censor: Drag and the Censorship of the British Theater, 1939–1968 

Epilogue: How Queer Is Drag? 

Notes 
Bibliography 
Index 

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.8.2023
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Series in British Studies
• Reihe/Serie: Berkeley Series in British Studies
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
• Schlagworte: British history of drag performance • Censorship • Entertainment • female impersonation • Gender and Sexuality • Gender variance • Humor • impersonators • male cross dressing in England • Modern Britain • social and cultural attitudes • Subculture • theater studies
• ISBN-13: 9780520393332 / 9780520393332