Article
Drag Queen as Angel: Transformation and Transcendence in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar
Journal of Popular Film and Television
(1996)
Abstract
Explores the means by which the movie `To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar,' conveys the `different but equal' message to its heterosexual American audience. Strategy of demonstrating the `virtual normality' of homosexuals; Drag queen as angel; Construction of drag queens and angels; Transformative acts in the movie.
Keywords
- Drag queen as angel,
- Transformation and transcendence
Disciplines
Publication Date
1996
Citation Information
Joyce D. Hammond. "Drag Queen as Angel: Transformation and Transcendence in To Wong Foo, Thanks for Everything, Julie Newmar" Journal of Popular Film and Television Vol. 24 Iss. 3 (1996) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/joyce_hammond/22/