Madea Sensation: Paradox and Trans Feminist Possibilities in Tyler Perry's Work

Openly celebrating contradiction, Perry’s films rely on jokes about his cross-dressing performance as Madea as well as his tendency to play multiple roles at once to interpellate the audience as knowledgeable spectators who delight in the films’ seeming inconsistencies.78 While often poorly construc...

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Published in:	Discourse (Berkeley, Calif.) Calif.), 2020-10, Vol.42 (3), p.332-355
Main Author:	Morse, Nicole Erin
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Subjects:	Academic Language Aesthetics African Americans Ambiguity Archetypes (Psychology) Audiences Authenticity Common sense Convergence Cross-dressers Dressing Exegesis & hermeneutics Females Femininity Feminism Film studies Folklore Gender identity Happiness Hegemony Hypocrisy Ideology Intersectionality Jokes Literary characters Literary devices Logic Love Mass media images Misogyny Motion picture directors & producers Motion pictures Multiple roles Ontology Peer Acceptance Perry, Tyler Pleasure Professional identity Spectators Stigma Transgender persons Values Websites White supremacy Women
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