Distancing Representations in Transgender Film: Identification, Affect, and the Audience

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.

ISBN-13: 9781438491998

Media Type: Hardcover

Publisher: State University of New York Press

Publication Date: 02-01-2023

Pages: 250

Product Dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

Series: SUNY series - Horizons of Cinema

Lucy J. Miller is Lecturer in Communication at Texas A&M University. She is the author of Genderblindness in American Society: The Rhetoric of a System of Social Control of Women and the coeditor (with Amanda R. Martinez) of Gender in a Transitional Era: Changes and Challenges.

Table of 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
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