Lana and Lilly Wachowski / by Cael M. Keegan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Keegan, Cáel M., author.

Series:

Contemporary film directors.

Contemporary film directors

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wachowski, Lilly, 1967---Criticism and interpretation.

Wachowski, Lilly.

Wachowski, Lana, 1965---Criticism and interpretation.

Wachowski, Lana.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 180 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2019.

Summary:

"Lana and Lilly Wachowski are intensely political film writers, directors, and producers whose work has made an indelible impact on American popular culture. From The Matrix (1999) to Cloud Atlas (2012), they have left their mark as innovators in the industry, consistently pushing the boundaries of what is perceived as technically and topically possible in studio film. They are also the world's first major transgender film directors and arguably the most influential transgender cultural producers in human history. Their coming out makes possible a reevaluation of the Wachowskis' entire oeuvre as curating alternate approaches to gender, emobodiment, and perception, that might be retrospectively theorized as "trans." In this study, Cael Keegan will argue that the Wachowskis' work can be read as an aesthetic history of transgender political consciousness as it has evolved in popular media. He explores the significance of the Wachowskis as film and genre innovators who have permanently altered the technology and aesthetics of mainstream Hollywood cinema. Keegan sees the radical identities at play in many of their early films as emerging from a queer sensibility and a hoped-for sense of the body's plasticity. Moving chronologically through the Wachowskis' filmography, he uses the films' theorization of gender and embodied identity at the intersection of convergence, virtuality, biopolitical surveillance and capitalist realism to open these much-discussed works to new modes of analysis"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Trans opt: Received

"You can believe what you feel": Bound

Ecstatic passages: The matrix

Redpill

Adventures in transreality: The animatrix

Heroic ends: The matrix reloaded and The matrix revolutions

Revolutionary guises: V for Vendetta

Sensorial assault

Fixed races: Speed racer

Escaping history: Cloud atlas

Speculative heights: Jupiter ascending

Epilogue

event horizon: Sense8

Interview with Lana Wachowski

Filmography

Bibliography

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography, and index.

Description based on print version record.

Previously issued in print: 2018.

ISBN:

9780252050879

0252050878

OCLC:

1065537618