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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.
Main title:
Imprint:
London : Repeater, 2024.
Collation:
332 pages ; 22 cm
Notes:
Includes index.
ISBN:
9781914420580 (pbk)
Dewey class:
791.43653791.4
LC class:
PN1995.9.T684
Language:
English
BRN:
3991850
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