Shimmering Images : Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change /

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In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the "shimmer" and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows how sex and gender can ap...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Steinbock, Eliza (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Durham : Duke University Press, [2019]
Temas:
Gender identity in motion pictures.
Motion pictures > Aesthetics.
Motion pictures > Social aspects.
Transgender people in motion pictures.
Transsexuals in motion pictures.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface Call Me They
  • Acknowledgments
  • INTRODUCTION Disjunction and Conjunction Thinking Trans through the Cinematic
  • ONE Shimmering Phantasmagoria Trans/Cinema/Aesthetics in an Age of Technological Reproducibility
  • TWO Shimmering Sex Docu-Porn's Trans-Sexualities, Confession Culture, and Suturing Practices
  • THREE Shimmering Multiplicity Trans*Forms in Dandy Dust and I.K.U. from Dada to Data to D@D@
  • CONCLUSION An Ensemble of Shimmers
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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