Distancing Representations in Transgender Film : Identification, Affect, and the Audience (Suny series, Horizons of Cinema)

Miller, Lucy J.

State University of New York Press（2023/02発売）

• 製本 Hardcover:ハードカバー版／ページ数 250 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781438491998
• DDC分類 791.43653

Full Description

Argues that transgender representations in film make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life.

Distancing Representations in Transgender Film explores the representation of transgender identity in several important cinema genres: comedies, horror films, suspense thrillers, and dramas. In a critique that is both deeply personal and theoretically sophisticated, Lucy J. Miller examines how these representations are often narratively and visually constructed to prompt emotions of ridicule, fear, disgust, and sympathy from a cisgender audience. Created by and for cisgender people, these films do not accurately represent transgender people's experiences, and the emotions they inspire serve to distance cisgender audience members from the transgender people they encounter in their day-to-day lives. By helping to increase the distance between cisgender and transgender people, Miller argues, these films make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life. The book concludes with suggestions for improving transgender representation in film.

Contents

Acknowledgments
Introduction

1. My Transgender Experience with Film and Other Media

2. Ridicule in Transgender Comedies

3. Fear in Transgender Horror Films

photo gallery

4. Disgust in Transgender Thrillers

5. Sympathy in Transgender Dramas

6. Improving Transgender Representation in Film

Notes
Bibliography
Index