Research Catalog

Title

Boys don't cry / Chase Joynt and Morgan M Page.

Author

Joynt, Chase, 1981-

Publication

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

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Details

Additional Authors

Page, Morgan M., 1987-

Description

xix, 104 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Summary

"Hailed as groundbreaking upon its original release, the Oscar-winning film Boys Don't Cry offered the first mainstream access to transmasculine embodiment in North America, one that many simultaneously celebrated and rejected. More than two decades after its original release, the film has become a lightning rod for contemporary debates about the representation of trans lives and deaths on screen. Representational possibilities for trans people have changed dramatically since 1999. Morgan Page and Chase Joynt approach the accumulated tension with a spirit of curiosity about the limits of these historical returns. They argue that new visibilities of transness on screen require us to re-engage earlier portrayals: Boys Don't Cry is central to conversations about casting, violence against gender non-conforming people, and the borders between butch and trans identities. Acknowledging a younger generation of queer and trans people who are straining against the images foisted upon them, including this film's egregious violence, and an older cohort for whom it remains a formative, if complicated, touchstone, Joynt and Page revisit the original contexts of production and distribution to unsettle the overdetermined ways the work has been understood and interpreted. Boys Don't Cry ultimately relocates the film in a way that attends to the story's violence and values, both on and off screen."--

Series Statement

Queer film classics

Uniform Title

Queer film classic.

Alternative Title

Boys do not cry

Subject

• Peirce, Kimberly > Criticism and interpretation
• Boys don't cry (Motion picture : 1999)
• Transgender people in motion pictures
• Motion pictures > United States > History and criticism
• Motion pictures
• United States

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-101) and index.

Additional Formats (note)

• Issued also in electronic formats.

Call Number

MFLP (Boys don't cry) 22-4149

ISBN

• 9780228010814
• 0228010810
• 9780228010821
• 0228010829

OCLC

1280274171

Author

Joynt, Chase, 1981- author.

Title

Boys don't cry / Chase Joynt and Morgan M Page.

Publisher

Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, [2022]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Queer film classics

Queer film classic.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 93-101) and index.

Additional Formats

Issued also in electronic formats.

Added Author

Page, Morgan M., 1987- author.

Other Form:

Online version: Joynt, Chase, 1981- Boys don't cry. Montreal ; Kingston ; London ; Chicago : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2022 0228013003 9780228013006 (OCoLC)1292740719

Research Call Number

MFLP (Boys don't cry) 22-4149