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Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema

Author : Niall Richardson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000618773
Total Pages : 211 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (6 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.

Trans New Wave Cinema

Author : Akkadia Ford
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 9780367566999
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (669 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.

Transgender Cinema

Author : Rebecca Bell-Metereau
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813597331
Total Pages : 179 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 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.

Latinx Representation in Contemporary Popular Culture and New Media

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004708693
Total Pages : 295 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Latinx Representation in Contemporary Popular Culture and New Media written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-08-22 with total page 295 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a partial mapping of the ambivalent representational forms and cultural politics that have characterized Latinx identity since the 1990s, looking at literary and popular culture texts, as well as new media expressions. The chapters tackle themes related to the diversity of Latinx culture and experience, as represented in different media the borderland context, issues related to gender and sexuality, the US–Mexico borderland context, and the connections between spatiality and Latinx self-representation—sketching the “now” of Latinx representation and considering that “Latinx” is an unstable signifier, and the present, as well as culture and media, are always in motion.

Transmedia and Public Representation

Author : Leandra H Hernandez
Publisher : Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781433170324
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (73 download)

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Book Synopsis Transmedia and Public Representation by : Leandra H Hernandez

Download or read book Transmedia and Public Representation written by Leandra H Hernandez and published by Peter Lang Incorporated, International Academic Publishers. This book was released on 2021 with total page 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.

The History of Trans Representation in American Television and Film Genres

Author : Traci B. Abbott
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030977935
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (39 download)

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Book Synopsis The History of Trans Representation in American Television and Film Genres by : Traci B. Abbott

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.

Transgender On Screen

Author : J. Phillips
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230596339
Total Pages : 205 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (35 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 205 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.

Transgressive Bodies

Author : Niall Richardson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317007395
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Transgressive Bodies written by Niall Richardson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-02-17 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In recent years the body has become one of the most popular areas of study in the arts, social sciences and humanities. Transgressive Bodies offers an examination of a variety of non-normative bodies and how they are represented in film, media and popular culture. Examining the non-normative body in a cultural studies context, this book reconsiders the concept of the transgressive body , establishing its status as a culturally mutable term, arguing that popular cultural representations create the transgressive or freak body and then proceed to either contain its threat or (s)exploit it. Through studies of extreme bodybuilding, obesity, disability and transsexed bodies, it examines the implications of such transgressive bodies for gender politics and sexuality. Transgressive Bodies engages with contemporary cultural debates, always relating these to concrete studies of media and cultural representations. This book will therefore appeal to scholars across a range of disciplines, including media and film studies, cultural studies, gender studies, sociology, sports studies and cultural theory.

Imagining Possibilities

Author : Suzanne Woodward
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (783 download)

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Download or read book Imagining Possibilities written by Suzanne Woodward and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trans representations have been a part of film since its inception, and this project is an investigation of the ways that audiences have been encouraged to imagine trans identities and experiences and understand trans issues. Because of the enduring and widespread popularity of these films, and the power and influence of the medium itself, it is important to understand what they enable for mainstream audiences as well as the role they play in cultural discourses about heteronormativity. The ways that the films construct trans narratives and characters tends to be closely tied to the genre they are intended to be part of, and they are understood according to these conventions. This project therefore uses genre analysis to examine mainstream trans representation, in conjunction with the developments in politics and academic discourses that have shaped contemporary understandings of trans stories. The project covers the four genres that dominate in mainstream trans films: comedy, horror, melodrama, and musicals. Each genre is dealt with in a separate chapter, but the links and intersections between them are explored as well. The chapters consider the particular influences, conventions, constraints, and innovations specific to each genre, through close reading of a few key texts, as a way of tracing the shifts that have occurred and the conventions that have endured, and offers suggestions as to why and how these elements survive or transform. Through tracing these developments, this project identifies the ways in which trans representations in popular film have played a role in developing and maintaining the trans visibility in mainstream society, and contributed to cultural discourses and understandings of trans issues. Despite the problems and stereotypes inherent in many of these films, they prevent trans identities from being erased or ignored. The films open up gaps in the heteronormative monolith, which can be ever be fully resealed, and which provide a space for other possibilities to be imagined.

In a Queer Time and Place

Author : Judith Halberstam
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 0814735843
Total Pages : 237 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (147 download)

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Download or read book In a Queer Time and Place written by Judith 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.

To Survive on this Shore

Author : Jess T. Dugan
Publisher : Kehrer Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783868288544
Total Pages : 163 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (885 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

Lana and Lilly Wachowski

Author : Cael M. Keegan
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
ISBN 13 : 0252050878
Total Pages : 239 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (52 download)

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Book Synopsis Lana and Lilly Wachowski by : Cael M. Keegan

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 239 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.

Distancing Representations in Transgender Film

Author : Lucy J. Miller
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 1438492014
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (384 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.

Crossdressing Cinema

Author : Jeremy Russell Miller
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (818 download)

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Download or read book Crossdressing Cinema written by Jeremy Russell Miller and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transgender representations generally distance the transgender characters from the audience as objects of ridicule, fear, and sympathy. This distancing is accomplished through the use of specific narrative conventions and visual codes. In this dissertation, I analyze representations of transgender individuals in popular film comedies, thrillers, and independent dramas. Through a textual analysis of 24 films, I argue that the narrative conventions and visual codes of the films work to prevent identification or connection between the transgender characters and the audience. The purpose of this distancing is to privilege the heteronormative identities of the characters over their transgender identities. This dissertation is grounded in a cultural studies approach to representation as constitutive and constraining and a positional approach to gender that views gender identity as a position taken in a specific social context. Contributions are made to the fields of communication, film studies, and gender studies through the methodological approach to textual analysis of categories of films over individual case studies and the idea that individuals can be positioned in identities they do not actively claim for themselves. This dissertation also makes a significant contribution to conceptions of the gaze through the development of three transgender gazes that focus on the ways the characters are visually constructed rather than the viewpoints taken by audience members. In the end, transgender representations work to support heteronormativity by constructing the transgender characters in specific ways to prevent audience members from developing deeper connections with them.

Trans New Wave Cinema

Author : Akkadia Ford
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100037906X
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Trans New Wave Cinema written by Akkadia Ford and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2021-04-22 with total page 228 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. Drawing on a diverse range of texts, the cultural, social, aesthetic and ethical implications of the genre are placed within the context of rapidly changing understandings of gender diversity. From the cinematic borderlands of independent film festivals to wider public recognition via digital technologies, the genre encompasses a diverse range of texts from short films, documentaries, experimental films, to feature films and narratives that range across life histories, narratives and themes. The book presents transliteracy as an original theoretical approach to reading film representations of the Trans New Wave, and combines it with a new theoretical concept of cinematic ethnogenesis to investigate how the genre emerged from specific communities and the reciprocal interaction of audiences and texts. This interdisciplinary volume engages with contemporary issues of gender diversity, transgender studies, screen and media studies and film festival studies, and as such will be of great interest to scholars working in these fields and in media and cultural studies more generally.

Screening Genders

Author : Krin Gabbard
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813543401
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Screening Genders written by Krin Gabbard and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gender roles have been tested, challenged, and redefined everywhere during the past thirty years, but perhaps nowhere more dramatically than in film. Screening Genders is a lively and engaging introduction to the evolving representations of masculinity, femininity, and places once thought to be "in between." The book begins with a general introduction that traces the movement of gender theory from the margins of film studies to its center. The ten essays that follow address a range of topics, including screen stars; depictions of gay, straight, queer, and transgender subjects; and the relationship between gender and genre. Widely respected scholars, including Robert T. Eberwein, Lucy Fischer, Chris Holmlund, E. Ann Kaplan, Kathleen Rowe Karlyn, David Lugowski, Patricia Mellencamp, Jerry Mosher, Jacqueline Reich, and Chris Straayer, focus on the radical ideological advances of contemporary cinema, as well as on those groundbreaking films that have shaped our ideas about masculinity and femininity, not only in movies but in American culture at large. The first comprehensive overview of the history of gender theory in film, this book is an ideal text for courses and will serve as a foundation for further discussion among students and scholars alike.

Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World

Author : Carl Fischer
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 0814346839
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (143 download)

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Download or read book Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World written by Carl Fischer and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-20 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Intended for scholars, students, and researchers of film and Latin American studies, Chilean Cinema in the Twenty-First-Century World evaluates an active and emergent film movement that has yet to receive sufficient attention in global cinema studies.