Format:
1 Online-Resource (248 Seiten)
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Illustrationen
ISBN:
9781478004509
Content:
In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes'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. Steinbock 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. Steinbock 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, Steinbock not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies and epistemologies as emergent, affective, and processual
Note:
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)
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In English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 978-1-47800-324-3
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
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Sociology
Keywords:
Film
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Transgender
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Geschichte
DOI:
10.1515/9781478004509
URL:
Volltext
(URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781478004509
URL:
https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781478004509
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