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This article looks at animal drag in MTV's Jackass and Wildboyz -- moments when the performers act or dress like animals. For example, performer Steve-O inserts a fish hook into his face and is thrown overboard from a ship. I show how Jackass and Wildboyz therefore ask audiences to feel for the performers as both humans and animals.
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This article brings together cutting-edge work in transgender studies, affect studies, animal studies, and the environmental humanities to develop a new concept of cross-species and cross-body feeling. It sheds new light on MTV's Jackass, a long-running and lucrative media phenomenon.
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This page is a summary of: Alligator Earrings and the Fishhook in the Face: Tragicomedy, Transcorporeality, and Animal Drag, TSQ Transgender Studies Quarterly, January 2015, Duke University Press,
DOI: 10.1215/23289252-2867561.
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