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

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In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order -- relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters. In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down this lost highway, exploring the way that trans people and transness have evolved on-screen. Starting from the very earliest representations of transness in silent film, through to the multiplex-conquering Matrix franchise and on to the emergence of a true trans-authored cinema, Corpses, Fools and Monsters spans everything from musicals to body horror to avant garde experimental film to tell the story of the trans film image. In doing so, the authors investigate the wider history of trans representation -- an exhilarating journey of compromise, recuperation, and potential liberation that they argue is only just the beginning.

Transgender people in motion pictures --- Gender nonconformity --- Transgender men --- Transgender women --- Transsexuals in motion pictures --- Sex role in motion pictures --- In motion pictures --- In motion pictures --- In motion pictures

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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.

Sociology of the family. Sociology of sexuality --- Theatrical science --- Gender identity. --- Marginality, Social. --- Sex role. --- Transgender people in literature. --- Transgender people in motion pictures. --- Transgenderism. --- Teena, Brandon, --- Gender nonconformity. --- Gender variance (Gender nonconformity) --- Genderqueer --- Non-binary gender --- TGNC (Transgender and gender nonconformity) --- Transgenderism --- Gender expression --- Gender identity --- Sex identity (Gender identity) --- Sexual identity (Gender identity) --- Identity (Psychology) --- Sex (Psychology) --- Queer theory --- Gender role --- Gender roles --- Gendered role --- Gendered roles --- Role, Gender --- Role, Gendered --- Role, Sex --- Roles, Gender --- Roles, Gendered --- Roles, Sex --- Sex roles --- Sex differences (Psychology) --- Social role --- Sexism --- Motion pictures --- Exclusion, Social --- Marginal peoples --- Social exclusion --- Social marginality --- Assimilation (Sociology) --- Culture conflict --- Social isolation --- Sociology --- People with social disabilities --- Brandon, Teena, --- Gender dysphoria --- POLITICAL SCIENCE --- SOCIAL SCIENCE --- Transsexuals in motion pictures --- Transsexuals in literature --- Transsexualism --- Marginality, Social --- Sex role --- Transgender people in literature --- Transgender people in motion pictures --- Gender nonconformity --- Transsexualilsm. --- Transsexuals in motion pictures. --- Transsexuals in literature. --- Public Policy --- Cultural Policy. --- Anthropology --- Cultural. --- Popular Culture. --- Transexualism --- Transexuality --- Transsexuality --- Psychological aspects --- Transsexual people --- LGBTQ+ films --- Queer studies