Corpses, fools, and monsters : the history and future of transness in cinema
Gardner, Caden Mark2024
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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.
Corpses, fools, and monsters : the history and future of transness in cinema / Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay.
Gardner, Caden Mark, authorMaclay, Willow Catelyn, author
London : Repeater, 2024.
332 pages ; 22 cm
Includes index.
9781914420580 (pbk)
791.43653791.4
PN1995.9.T684
English
3991850