Trans Representations In Contemporary Popular Cinema

Author : Niall Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000618773
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema written by Niall Richardson and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-08-23 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book analyses how contemporary genre cinema represents trans-identified characters. Informed by key debates within transfeminism, queer theory, contemporary trans studies – and engaging with the concerns voiced by gender critical feminism – this culturally oriented book critiques the representation of trans characters in a range of cinematic genres, including the musical, period costume drama, the road movie, melodrama, coming-of-age stories, and romances. The case studies address the ways in which trans identifications have been coded within the narrative and stylistic expectations of the genres. Are genre films successful in affirming trans identifications or do they reinforce trans stereotypes and anti-trans discourses? This is a timely and accessible book, which addresses Anglophonic, European and Latin American cinemas, and is ideal for students studying courses in Film Studies, Media Studies, Cultural Studies or Gender Studies.

Author : Akkadia Ford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367566999
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trans New Wave Cinema written by Akkadia Ford and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2023-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a critical cultural study of the Trans New Wave as a cinematic genre and explores its emergence in the twenty first century.

Author : Magalí Daniela Pérez Riedel
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433170348
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transmedia and Public Representation written by Magalí Daniela Pérez Riedel and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book investigates how contemporary media represent transgender and gender non-conforming people. Authors in this edited collection analyze the most popular films and television shows of all times and find how much (and how little) media portrayals of trans folks have changed or remained stagnant in the past 20 years.

Author : Jess T. Dugan
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868288544
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book To Survive on this Shore written by Jess T. Dugan and published by Kehrer Verlag. This book was released on 2018-05 with total page 163 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nuanced view into the complexities of aging as a transgender person

Author : Traci B. Abbott
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030977935
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of Trans Representation in American Television and Film Genres written by Traci B. Abbott and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-05-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Due to the increase in transgender characters in scripted television and film in the 2010s, trans visibility has been presented as a relatively new phenomenon that has positively shifted the cis society’s acceptance of the trans community. This book counters this claim to assert that such representations actually present limited and harmful characterizations, as they have for decades. To do so, this book analyzes transgender narratives in scripted visual media from the 1960s to 2010s across a variety of genres, including independent and mainstream films and television dramatic series and sitcoms, judging not the veracity of such representations per se but dissecting their transphobia as a constant despite relevant shifts that have improved their veracity and variety. Already ingrained with their own ideological expectations, genres shift the framing of the trans character, particularly the relevance of their gender difference for cisgender characters and society. The popularity of trans characters within certain genres also provides a historical lineage that is examined against the progression of transgender rights activism and corresponding transphobic falsehoods, concluding that this popular medium continues to offer a limited and narrow conception of gender, the variability of the transgender experience, and the range of transgender identities.

Author : J. Phillips
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230596339
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transgender On Screen written by J. Phillips and published by Springer. This book was released on 2006-07-10 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an exploration of the cultural representations of transvestism and transsexuality in modern screen media against a historical background. Focussing on a dozen mainstream films and on shemale Internet pornography, this fascinating study demonstrates the interdependency of our perceptions of transgender and its culturally constructed images.

Author : Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813597331
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Transgender Cinema written by Rebecca Bell-Metereau and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2019-03 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgender Cinema reveals the scope of how trans people have been depicted on screen, starting with Charlie Chaplin's comic drag scenes and culminating in current hits like Transparent and A Fantastic Woman. It analyzes classic Hollywood movies, indie films, documentaries, world cinema, television, and trans filmmakers and actors.

Author : J. Jack Halberstam
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814735848
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In a Queer Time and Place written by J. Jack Halberstam and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music In her first book since the critically acclaimed Female Masculinity, Judith Halberstam examines the significance of the transgender body in a provocative collection of essays on queer time and space. She presents a series of case studies focused on the meanings of masculinity in its dominant and alternative forms’ especially female and trans-masculinities as they exist within subcultures, and are appropriated within mainstream culture. In a Queer Time and Place opens with a probing analysis of the life and death of Brandon Teena, a young transgender man who was brutally murdered in small-town Nebraska. After looking at mainstream representations of the transgender body as exhibited in the media frenzy surrounding this highly visible case and the Oscar-winning film based on Brandon's story, Boys Don’t Cry, Halberstam turns her attention to the cultural and artistic production of queers themselves. She examines the “transgender gaze,” as rendered in small art-house films like By Hook or By Crook, as well as figurations of ambiguous embodiment in the art of Del LaGrace Volcano, Jenny Saville, Eva Hesse, Shirin Neshat, and others. She then exposes the influence of lesbian drag king cultures upon hetero-male comic films, such as Austin Powers and The Full Monty, and, finally, points to dyke subcultures as one site for the development of queer counterpublics and queer temporalities. Considering the sudden visibility of the transgender body in the early twenty-first century against the backdrop of changing conceptions of space and time, In a Queer Time and Place is the first full-length study of transgender representations in art, fiction, film, video, and music. This pioneering book offers both a jumping off point for future analysis of transgenderism and an important new way to understand cultural constructions of time and place.

Author : Cael M. Keegan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050878
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lana and Lilly Wachowski written by Cael M. Keegan and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2018-11-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lana and Lilly Wachowski have redefined the technically and topically possible while joyfully defying audience expectations. Visionary films like The Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas have made them the world's most influential transgender media producers, and their coming out retroactively put trans* aesthetics at the very center of popular American culture. Cáel M. Keegan views the Wachowskis' films as an approach to trans* experience that maps a transgender journey and the promise we might learn "to sense beyond the limits of the given world." Keegan reveals how the filmmakers take up the relationship between identity and coding (be it computers or genes), inheritance and belonging, and how transgender becoming connects to a utopian vision of a post-racial order. Along the way, he theorizes a trans* aesthetic that explores the plasticity of cinema to create new social worlds, new temporalities, and new sensory inputs and outputs. Film comes to disrupt, rearrange, and evolve the cinematic exchange with the senses in the same manner that trans* disrupts, rearranges, and evolves discrete genders and sexes.

Author : Lucy J. Miller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438492014
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.18/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Distancing Representations in Transgender Film written by Lucy J. Miller and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2023-02-01 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Distancing Representations in Transgender Film explores the representation of transgender identity in several important cinema genres: comedies, horror films, suspense thrillers, and dramas. In a critique that is both deeply personal and theoretically sophisticated, Lucy J. Miller examines how these representations are often narratively and visually constructed to prompt emotions of ridicule, fear, disgust, and sympathy from a cisgender audience. Created by and for cisgender people, these films do not accurately represent transgender people's experiences, and the emotions they inspire serve to distance cisgender audience members from the transgender people they encounter in their day-to-day lives. By helping to increase the distance between cisgender and transgender people, Miller argues, these films make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life. The book concludes with suggestions for improving transgender representation in film.