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Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Maclay
- Gardner, Caden Mark, Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Film criticism.
- Motion pictures.
- Sexual minority culture.
- Films.
- Genre:
- Discursive works
- Critical Writing.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource.
- Place of Publication:
- Repeater Books, 2024.
- [Place of publication not identified], Repeater Books, 2024.
- Summary:
- "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."-- provided by distributor.
- Notes:
- Standard Copyright.
- Archived and cataloged by Library Stack
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