Format:
1 Online-Ressource (vii, 230 Seiten)
,
Illustrationen
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781438492018
Series Statement:
SUNY Series, Horizons of Cinema Ser.
Content:
Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life.
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Overview of Transgender Representation in Film -- Identification, Affect, and the Audience -- Narrative Conventions and Visual Codes -- 1 My Transgender Experience with Film and Other Media -- Searching for Transgender Representation -- Interest in Transformation -- Looking for Role Models and Expressions of Femininity -- 2 Ridicule in Transgender Comedies -- Prompting Ridicule through Narrative Conventions -- Crisis Requiring Cross-Dressing -- Challenges to and Reassertion of Cisnormativity -- Cisnormative Rivals -- Lessons Learned -- Visual Codes: The Trans-Misogynistic Gaze -- Successful Transformation -- Objects and Possessors of the Gaze -- The Big Reveal -- Possible Effects of Transgender Comedies -- 3 Fear in Transgender Horror Films -- Prompting Fear through Narrative Conventions -- Positioned as Outsiders by Cisnormative Society -- Kill the Repressive Agents of Cisnormativity -- Efforts at Containment -- Visual Codes: The Transphobic Gaze -- Delayed Revelation of the Characters' Transgender Identities -- Forceful Unmasking -- Looks of Fear -- Possible Effects of Transgender Horror Films -- Photo Gallery -- 4 Disgust in Transgender Thrillers -- Prompting Disgust through Narrative Conventions -- Positioned as Outsiders by Cisnormative Society -- Kill or Threaten the Repressive Agents of Cisnormativity -- Efforts at Containment -- Visual Codes: The Transphobic Gaze -- Delayed Revelation of the Characters' Transgender Identities -- Forceful Unmasking -- Looks of Disgust -- Possible Effects of Transgender Thrillers -- 5 Sympathy in Transgender Dramas -- Prompting Sympathy through Narrative Conventions -- Constraints on Gender Identity -- Proving Gender Identity through Actions -- Repressive Actions of Cisnormativity -- Visual Codes: The Trans-Pathetic Gaze -- Attention to Dressing.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe, Hardcover ISBN 9781438491998
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781438492001
Language:
English
Subjects:
General works
Keywords:
USA
;
Spielfilm
;
Transgender
;
Geschichte 1980-2000
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Electronic books
