From Drags To Riches

Author : John Wallraff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136571876
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Drags to Riches written by John Wallraff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-07 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Learn how Charles Pierce achieved stardom and became one of the most famous female impersonators of all time! Charles Pierce (1926--1999) was an internationally known and highly successful female impersonator, known for his vivid portrayals of Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, and Mae West. This book offers a candid look at a career that spanned over fifty years--from his humble start at the Pasadena Playhouse, to his sold-out shows in San Francisco. From Drags to Riches provides a rich and colorful history of Charles Pierce. In this insightful and moving volume, Pierce’s friend John Wallraff offers valuable insights about the little-known man behind the makeup and captures the essence of what drag stardom is really like. This informative, imaginative, and sexually provocative book contains: stories of how famous Hollywood icons shaped Charles Pierce’s life and his act Pierce’s history, from his humble beginnings at the Pasadena Playhouse to his sold-out shows in San Francisco and beyond a look at Pierce’s private life an examination of the price of fame--how successes and failures shape any performer Using the words of Charles Pierce himself, adding a dash of humor, mixing in fascinating insights, and sprinkling in juicy stories of love, lust, and sex, this book is a melting pot of information about a well-loved but sometimes misunderstood man.

Author : Danny La Rue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780140098624
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Drags to Riches written by Danny La Rue and published by . This book was released on 1988-09-01 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Danny La Rue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Drags to Riches written by Danny La Rue and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : John Wallraff
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9781560233862
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Drags to Riches written by John Wallraff and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Charles Pierce (1926-1999) was an internationally known and highly successful female impersonator, known for his vivid portrayals of Bette Davis, Katherine Hepburn, and Mae West. This book offers a candid look at a career that spanned over fifty yearsfrom his humble start at the Pasadena Playhouse, to his sold-out shows in San Francisco. Told by longtime friend John Wallraff, and complete with humor, juicy stories of love, lust, sex, and Charles Pierce's own words, this book sculpts an intimate portrait of the man behind the make-up.

Author : Danny La Rue
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780862202682
Total Pages : 349 pages
Book Rating : 4.8X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Drags to Riches written by Danny La Rue and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 349 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jacob Bloomfield
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520393333
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drag written by Jacob Bloomfield and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-08-01 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “A must-read for anyone interested in the history of drag performance.”—​Publishers Weekly A rich and provocative history of drag's 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 culture—drag 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.

Author : Erik Arneson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 161673096X
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book John Force written by Erik Arneson and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Horst Hermann Kruse
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From Rags to Riches: Erfolgsmythos U. Erfolgsrezepte in D. Amerikan written by Horst Hermann Kruse and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Roger Baker
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814712533
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drag written by Roger Baker and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A concise history of the drag tradition—from 13th century to today Men have been dressing as women on stage for hundreds of years, dating back to the thirteenth century when the Church forbade the appearance of female actors but condoned that of men and boys disguised as the opposite sex. Forms of transvestism can be traced back to the dawn of theatre and are found in all corners of the world, notably in China and Japan. In recent years, of course, drag has witnessed a dramatic and widespread revival. Newsday recently observed, People are talking about all those fabulous heterosexual film idols who now can't seem to wait to get tarted up in drag and do their screen bits as fishnet queens. Drawing on a cinematic tradition popularized by Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon in Some Like it Hot, Dustin Hoffman (Tootsie) and Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire) have each delighted mainstream audiences with their portrayals of women. Even former drag queens have experience newfound fame; witness the recent popularity of the late Divine, renowned for her oddly compelling appearances in underground John Waters films. Music, too, has been profoundly influenced by drag sensibility, from David Bowie's Ziggy Stardust and the Rocky Horror Picture Show to Boy George and RuPaul (the self-proclaimed Supermodel of the World). Tracing drag tradition from the Golden Age of stage transvestism during the reigns of Elizabeth I and James I in England to the current quasi-drag inclinations of American grunge bands, Drag is an entertaining overview of this popular and complex medium.

Author : Mark Edward
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 135010437X
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Drag Histories, Herstories and Hairstories written by Mark Edward and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on rich interdisciplinary research that has laced the emerging subject of drag studies as an academic discipline, this book examines how drag performance is a political, socio-cultural practice with a widespread lineage throughout the history of performance. This volume maps the multi-threaded contexts of contemporary practices while rooting them in their fabulous historical past and memory. The book examines drag histories and what drag does with history, how it enacts or tells stories about remembering and the past. Featuring work about the USA, UK and Ireland, Japan, Australia, Brazil and Barbados, this book allows the reader to engage with a range of archival research including camp and history; ethnicity and drag; queering ballet through drag; the connections between drag king and queen history; queering pantomime performance; drag and military veterans; Puerto Rican drag performers and historical film.