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Trans cinema : making communities, identities, and worlds /

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An exciting introduction to cinema by the trans creators who are innovating filmmaking to imagine a more inclusive world. Since the 1990s, a largely underground upwelling of trans creativity has helped new trans identities, communities and political movements come together. In Trans Cinema, Laura Ho...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Horak, Laura (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Berkeley : University of California Press, [2026].
Subjects:
Motion pictures > Production and direction > North America.
Transgender motion picture producers and directors > North America.
Motion pictures > Social aspects > North America > 21st century.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Mainstream representation
  • A brief history of trans filmmaking
  • Creating trans audiences : The first trans film festivals
  • Community and chosen families
  • Trans childhoods, trans parenthoods
  • Love, sex, and dating
  • Resisting violence, police, and prisons
  • Embodiment and transition
  • Relating to the past
  • Conclusion.