Description
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 and cover topics such as gender and sexuality, body commodification, visual body rhetoric, drag performance, homosexuality and heteronormativity, Surrealism and the theatre of cruelty, the carnivalesque, monstrosity, imitation and parody, human rights, and racial politics. Of particular interest is the way that Lady Gaga's oeuvre, however popular, strange, raw or controversial, enters into the larger sociopolitical discourse, challenging the status quo and altering our perceptions of reality.
About the Author
Richard J. Gray II is an assistant professor of French at Ashland University in Ashland, Ohio. His fields of study include interdisciplinary approaches to French literary studies, language, film, cultural studies, and women's studies. He lives in Ashland, Ohio.
Reviews
"excellent"-The Journal of Popular Culture.
Book Information
ISBN 9780786468300
Author Richard J. Gray
Format Paperback
Page Count 271
Imprint McFarland & Co Inc
Publisher McFarland & Co Inc
Weight(grams) 376g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 14mm
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