Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change - Couverture souple

Steinbock, Eliza

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 147800388X ISBN 13 : 9781478003885

Editeur : Duke University Press, 2019

Synopsis

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 appear mirage-like on film, an effect they label shimmering. Steinbock applies the concept of shimmering--which delineates change in its emergent form as well as the qualities of transforming bodies, images, and affects--to analyses of films that span time and genre. These include examinations of the fantastic and phantasmagorical shimmerings of sex change in Georges Méliès's nineteenth-century trick films and Lili Elbe's 1931 autobiographical writings and photomontage in Man into Woman. Steinbock also explores more recent documentaries, science fiction, and pornographic and experimental films. Presenting a cinematic philosophy of transgender embodiment that demonstrates how shimmering images mediate transitioning, Steinbock not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies and epistemologies as emergent, affective, and processual.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Eliza Steinbock is Professor and Chair of Transgender Studies, Art and Cultural Activism in the Department of Literature and Art, Maastricht University.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 147800388X
• ISBN 13: 9781478003885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 277
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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