Distorted recognition: the pleasures and uses of televisual historical caricature

Andrews, Hannah

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“…Caricature works on a principle that I have elsewhere (Andrews 2019) termed 'distorted recognition' -an exaggeration of the most culturally well-known aspect of a person whose image, gesture and voice is reimagined in such a way as ironically to enable faster recall.…”

Section: Celebrity and Caricaturementioning

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“…Maggie Smith is accompanied by string quartet music, underlining the caricature of her elite status and stuffy Englishness. Here, editing and mise en scene contribute to the performed caricature by adding extra contextual clues to aid quick recognition, in a manner analogous to the presentation of caricature in other televisual contexts (Andrews, 2019). Canned laughter is added to performances in post-production to compensate for the lack of diegetic audience.…”

Section: Caricature As a Critical Framework In Snatch Game Episodesmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Drag celebrity impersonation as queer caricature in The Snatch Game

Andrews

2020

Celebrity Studies

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The Snatch Game episodes of RuPaul's Drag Race are hugely popular and highly anticipated. A test of their make-up and acting skills, the game requires competitors to impersonate celebrities and answer outrageous questions in-character. The hyperbolic nature of these impersonations, consistent with the culture and affective resonance of drag and camp, invites us to read them as performed caricatures. Caricature, like camp, can be critical and transgressive. It can also depend on gendered, classed, ableist or racialized stereotypes as part of its implied critique of its subject. This article will consider how Snatch Game caricatures manifest this play of subversion and conservatism in relation to the selection of celebrity subjects and the modes of performance applied to the impersonation of them. This article will analyse the relationship between drag, caricature and celebrity as it plays out in The Snatch Game, by considering how the celebrity impersonation draws on and subverts a celebrity's persona. If camp can be defined as 'queer parody' (Meyer, 1994), drag impersonations may be looked at as queer caricature.

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Section: Celebrity and Caricaturementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Caricature As a Critical Framework In Snatch Game Episodesmentioning

confidence: 99%