RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture

RuPaul’s Drag Race and the Shifting Visibility of Drag Culture
Author: Niall Brennan
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2017-08-25
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 3319506188

This book identifies and analyzes the ways in which RuPaul’s Drag Race has reshaped the visibility of drag culture in the US and internationally, as well as how the program has changed understandings of reality TV. This edited volume illustrates how drag has become a significant aspect of LGBTQ experience and identity globally through RuPaul’s Drag Race, and how the show has reformed a media landscape in which competition and reality itself are understood as given. Taking on lenses addressing race, ethnicity, geographical origin, cultural identity, physicality and body image, and participation in drag culture across the globe, this volume offers critical, non-traditional, and first-hand perspectives on drag culture.

The Year Round

The Year Round
Author: Clarence John Hylander
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2019-05-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9780578500904

The Year Round by C. J. Hylander, is a reprint of the classic field guide for children that takes the reader through the seasons, covering both fauna and flora. There are numerous beautiful pen and ink drawings of the subjects that were done by the author himself

Lake Victoria Wetlands and the Ecology of the Nile Tilapia

Lake Victoria Wetlands and the Ecology of the Nile Tilapia
Author: John Stephen Balirwa
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 376
Release: 2017-09-29
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 1351435973

This volume is taken from an ecological study of wetlands undertaken in northern Lake Victoria (East Africa) between 1993 and 1996 with the major aim of characterizing shallow vegetation-dominated interface habitats, and evaluating their importance for fish, in particular, for the Nile tilapia.

Color and Design

Color and Design
Author: Marilyn DeLong
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2013-08-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1847889530

From products we use to clothes we wear, and spaces we inhabit, we rely on colour to provide visual appeal, data codes and meaning. Color and Design addresses how we understand and experience colour, and through specific examples explores how colour is used in a spectrum of design-based disciplines including apparel design, graphic design, interior design, and product design. Through highly engaging contributions from a wide range of international scholars and practitioners, the book explores colour as an individual and cultural phenomenon, as a pragmatic device for communication, and as a valuable marketing tool. Color and Design provides a comprehensive overview for scholars and an accessible text for students on a range of courses within design, fashion, cultural studies, anthropology, sociology and visual and material culture. Its exploration of colour in marketing as well as design makes this book an invaluable resource for professional designers. It will also allow practitioners to understand how and why colour is so extensively varied and offers such enormous potential to communicate.