Treacherous Pin-ups, Politicized Prostitutes, and Activist Betrayals: Jane Fonda's Body in Hollywood and Hanoi

Anderson, Emily

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“…Marshall 1997, Drake and Higgins 2006, Becker 2013, McKernan 2011. Some of this literature focuses on how established celebrities leverage their fame in support of political causes (Anderson 2008, Dejmanee 2013, Farrell 2012. But what happens to the relationship between celebrity and politics when the newly-minted starin this case, the drag queenis one who has traditionally been marginalised, stigmatised and an object of socio-economic exclusion?…”

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FromParis is Burningto #dragrace: social media and the celebrification of drag culture

Feldman

Hakim

2020

Celebrity Studies

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This article examines the celebrification of drag culture in the USA, and reflects on social media's role therein. This transformation is contextualised historically by charting the evolution of drag media representation from the subversive drag collectives immortalised in arthouse documentaries like The Cockettes (2002) to the emergence of highly-polished, brand-conscious celebrity drag entrepreneurs propelled to fame by the reality television programme RuPaul's Drag Race (2009-).The success of RuPaul's Drag Race (RPDR) has lent drag unprecedented levels of mainstream visibility. In so doing, we argue that RPDR has facilitated drag culture's move from the fringes to the mainstream, and contributed to drag's celebrification. In the second half of the article, we draw on celebrity studies and self-branding literatures to outline the central role that social media have played in the celebrification of drag culture. We also critique the politics this celebrification props up. Through analysis of queen-generated content on social media platforms, and of RPDR transcripts, we home in on the ethics of drag's celebrificationspecifically the ways it supports homonormative narratives of the 'good queer' (Duggan 2003), and delimits the sorts of queer bodies and politics that are acceptable in the mainstream.

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FromParis is Burningto #dragrace: social media and the celebrification of drag culture

Feldman

Hakim

2020

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Hanoi Jane Française: Transnational in Time

An¹

2013

Transnational Stardom

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J ane Fonda may seem the most American of stars and celebrities, but it is impossible to understand her career and her status in world culture without seeing her as a transnational figure, without due consideration to an actual and ongoing career in France, where she has been known as "Jane la Française." 1 Despite the utterly public nature of Fonda's life and career, the standard narratives neglect the rise of her star from both sides of the Atlantic, as well as the true range of her talents, including an ability to act and do her own dubbing in French, thanks to her fluency in the language. Unwitting recollections may fall upon her memorable performance as the eponymous heroine of Barbarella: Queen of the Galaxy (1968), a Franco-Italian production directed by then-husband Roger Vadim. Even a decade before Barbarella, the French press compared Fonda to their largest and most bankable international film star, Brigitte Bardot, when they announced her as "the American Bardot" upon her arrival in Paris in 1957. Starring alongside leading French actors, including Alain Delon, Michel Piccoli, and Yves Montand, Fonda acted in other French films directed by Vadim (The Circle of Love, 1966; The Game Is Over, 1968), as well as those directed by notable film contemporaries: René Clément's Joy House (1964) and two films by Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Pierre Gorin-Tout va bien and Letter to Jane (both in 1972). Fonda continues to appear on French talk shows 2 and French commercials, 3 and most recently enjoyed a principal role in the French film Et si on vivait tous ensemble (And If We All Lived Together) by director Stéphane Robelin (2012). 4 For an entire half-century, Fonda's time in France has shaped the development of her artistry and work.

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Controlling the narrative: on Jane Fonda’s Third Act

Mira

2019

Celebrity Studies

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Treacherous Pin-ups, Politicized Prostitutes, and Activist Betrayals: Jane Fonda's Body in Hollywood and Hanoi

Cited by 13 publications

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FromParis is Burningto #dragrace: social media and the celebrification of drag culture

FromParis is Burningto #dragrace: social media and the celebrification of drag culture

Hanoi Jane Française: Transnational in Time

Controlling the narrative: on Jane Fonda’s Third Act

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