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Transgender Cinema gives readers the big picture of how trans people have been depicted on screen. Beginning with a history of trans tropes in classic Hollywood cinema, from comic drag scenes in Chaplin's The Masquerader to Garbo's androgynous Queen Christina, and from psycho killer queers to The Rocky Horror Picture Show's outrageous queen, it examines a plethora of trans portrayals that subsequently emerged from varied media outlets, including documentary films, television serials, and world cinema. Along the way, it analyzes milestones in trans representation, like The Crying Game, Boys Don't Cry, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,and A Fantastic Woman. As it traces the evolution of trans people onscreen, Transgender Cinema also considers the ongoing controversies sparked by these movies and series both within LGBTQ communities and beyond. Ultimately it reveals how film and television have shaped not only how the general public sees trans people, but also how trans people see themselves.

Transgender people in motion pictures. --- Motion pictures

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"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." --

Transgender people in motion pictures. --- Gender identity in motion pictures.

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This doctoral thesis by Wibke Straube explores the representation of transgender individuals in contemporary film, specifically focusing on the concept of 'Trans Cinema'. The study investigates the potential for utopian and hopeful narratives within films like 'Hedwig and the Angry Inch', 'Transamerica', and 'Laurence Anyways'. By analyzing scenes of singing, dancing, and dreaming, the thesis highlights alternative ways of engaging with trans identities beyond narratives of humiliation and violence. It employs a transfeminist perspective and draws on feminist and cultural theories to propose new conceptual tools such as 'exit scapes' and 'sensible cinematic'. This work contributes to transgender studies and visual culture, offering insights into the cinematic portrayal of gender dissidence.

Transgender people in motion pictures. --- Feminist film criticism.

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Traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthe's idea of the "shimmer" and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows how sex and gender can appear mirage-like on film, an effect they label shimmering. The author applies the concept of shimmering - which delineates change in its emergent form as well as the qualities of transforming bodies, images, and affects - to analyses of films that span time and genre. These include examinations of the fantastic and phantasmagorical shimmerings of sex change in Georges Méliès's nineteenth-century trick films and Lili Elbe's 1931 autobiographical writings and photomontage in "Man into Woman." The author also explores more recent documentaries, science fiction, and pornographic and experimental films. Presenting a cinematic philosophy of transgender embodiment that demonstrates how shimmering images mediate transitioning, the author not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies aepistemologiesies as emergent, affective, and processual.

Film. --- Gender identity in motion pictures. --- Geschlechterrolle --- Motion pictures --- Transgender people in motion pictures. --- Transgender --- Transsexuals in motion pictures. --- Aesthetics. --- Social aspects.

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Transgender on Screen werpt een blik op de culturele afbeeldingsvormen van travestie en transseksualiteit in moderne media en doet dit alles tegen een essentiële historische achtergrond. Hoe werden en worden cross-dressers en transseksuelen afgebeeld in drie verschillende filmgenres: komedies, trillers en mengvormen? Wat is de invloed van deze afbeeldingsvormen op het steeds problematischer wordende onderscheid tussen het ingebeelde en de realiteit? Deze analyse wordt gebaseerd op bevindingen uit de psychoanalyse, queer theorieën en post moderne theorieën.

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