Research Catalog

Title

Trans new wave cinema / Akkadia Ford.

Author

Ford, Akkadia

Publication

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

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Details

Description

xvii, 228 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.

Summary

"This book presents a critical cultural study of the Trans New Wave as a cinematic genre and explores its emergence in the twenty first century. Drawing on a diverse range of texts, the cultural, social, aesthetic and ethical implications of the genre are placed within the context of rapidly changing understandings of gender diversity. From the cinematic borderlands of independent film festivals, to wider public recognition via digital technologies, the genre encompasses a diverse range of texts from short films, documentaries, experimental films, to feature films and narratives that range across life histories, narratives and themes. The book presents transliteracy as an original theoretical approach to reading film representations of the Trans New Wave, and combines it with a new theoretical concept of cinematic ethnogenesis to investigate how the genre emerged from specific communities and the reciprocal interaction of audiences and texts. This interdisciplinary volume engages with contemporary issues of gender diversity, transgender studies, screen and media studies and film festival studies, and as such will be of great interest to scholars working in these fields and in media and cultural studies more generally"--

Series Statement

Routledge advances in film studies

Subject

• 2000-2099
• Transgender people in motion pictures > History and criticism
• Motion pictures > United States > History > 21st century
• Motion pictures
• Transgender people in motion pictures
• United States

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• History.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 209-217) and index.

Contents

Introduction : Introduction ; Background to the Trans New Wave emerging ; The relationship of the Trans New Wave to earlier cinematic waves ; Historical overview of key films pre-2008 with transsexual and transgender characters, themes and narratives ; Characteristics of the Trans New Wave ; Representational work of trans woman actors in independent films and streaming video ; Overview of methodologies and the interdisciplinary approach ; Thinking across boundaries -- Transliteracy : Foundations of Transliteracy ; Understanding the cultural contexts for independent trans cinema ; Transliteracy and textual exegesis ; Epistemological cinema ; Ontological cinema -- Key Texts of the Trans New Wave : Overview ; Fictional, narrative short, animation, drama ; Factual, documentary films, docu-drama ; Uplifting lives: Black Trans Lives Matter ; Use of life cycle narratives as a representational structure for documentary: three representations of transmasculinity (selected case study text Trans Boys) ; Experimental & performance art films ; Music on screen ; Use of genres: road trip, science fiction, horror (selected case study text The Thing) ; The 'real' and 'reality' ; Use of the road movie genre as a representational metaphor for transitioning ; Recurrent themes & tropes -- First Nations and Indigenous Trans Cinema : First Nations and Indigenous trans cinema ; Transliterate approaches to reading films from non-western and First Nations filmmakers ; Two Spirit and Third Gender cinema -- Gender-Diverse Youth Narratives : The significance of the emerging body of cinematic narratives focuses upon transgender youth ; Screen families Tomgirl (Jeremy Asher Lynch, USA, 2015) and Raising Ryland (Sarah Feeley, USA, 2015) ; Temporal considerations ; The role of education -- Cinematic Ethnogenesis : Birth of a new cinema ; Countercultures: screening independent trans cinema ; Overview of key international independent queer and transgender film festivals ; The reciprocal interaction of audiences and texts ; How classifications (ratings) systems may impact independent filmmakers and film festivals: overview of differences between the Australian, United Kingdom and American Systems ; Non-hegemonic cinema--whose community decides who sees the film? ; Trans new wave as reparative cinema -- Cinematic Futures : Developing a canon of representation of gender diversity and sexualities ; Sexing the Transman (Buck Angel, USAm 2011) ; Trans Boys (Ali Russell and Monique Schafter, Aus., 2012): Dex's story ; Community Action Centre (A. K. Burns, A. L. Steiner, USA, 2010) ; Cinema on demand ; The democratisation of distribution.

Call Number

MFL 22-771

ISBN

• 9780367566982
• 0367566982

LCCN

2020049915

OCLC

1233267579

Author

Ford, Akkadia, author.

Title

Trans new wave cinema / Akkadia Ford.

Publisher

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge advances in film studies

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references, filmography (pages 209-217) and index.

Local Note

AUTH: SOUTHERN CROSS UNIVERSITY. U.S. FOCUS.

Chronological Term

2000-2099

Other Form:

Online version: Ford, Akkadia, Trans new wave cinema Abingdon, Oxon ; New York : Routledge, 2021. 9781003099048 (DLC) 2020049916

Research Call Number

MFL 22-771