Main entry:

Gardner, Caden Mark, author.

Title & Author:

Corpses, fools, and monsters : the history and future of transness in cinema / Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay.

Publication:

London : Repeater, 2024.

Description:

1 online resource

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Preface : What are trans film images? -- The legend of Christine Jorgensen -- On the cusp of Stonewall : trans film images in the 1960s -- Post-Stonewall transness from the underground to the mainstream in the 1970s -- Weathering the storm : the 1980s -- Trans grotesquerie : from post-Psycho slashes to The Silence of the Lambs -- To be real : documentary depictions of transness -- David Cronenberg, Body Horror, and empathizing with the artificial other -- Subversion of fate : The Matrix series and the Wachowski sisters -- Cis-as-trans casting -- Towards a new cinematic language of our own : the 1990s into the 2000s -- Trans filmmakers and authorship : where are we now -- Conclusion : the new frontiers of the trans film image.

Summary:

A radical history of transness in cinema, and an exploration of the political possibilities of its future.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.

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ISBN:

9781914420597 electronic book
1914420594 electronic book
9781914420580
1914420586

Subject:

Transgender people in motion pictures.
Transgender people in motion pictures History.
Transgenres au cinéma.
Transgenres au cinéma Histoire.
Film criticism
Motion pictures
Sexual minority culture

Form/genre:

Discursive works.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Added entries:

Maclay, Willow Catelyn, author.

History and future of transness in cinema