Shimmering images : trans cinema, embodiment, and the aesthetics of change /

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 th...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Steinbock, Eliza, 1980- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Durham, North Carolina : Duke University Press, [2019]
Subjects:	Transgender people in motion pictures. Transsexuals in motion pictures. Gender identity in motion pictures. Motion pictures > Social aspects. Motion pictures > Aesthetics.

Table of Contents:

Preface : Call me they
Introduction : disjunction and conjunction : thinking trans through cinema
Shimmering phantasmagoria : trans/cinema/aesthetics in an age of technological reproducibility
Shimmering sex : docu-porn's trans-sexualities, confession culture, and suturing practices
Shimmering multiplicity : trans*forms in Dandy Dust and I.K.U. from Dada to data to d@d@
Conclusion : an ensemble of shimmers.