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Shimmering images : trans cinema, embodiment, and the aesthetics of change
- Title
- Shimmering images : trans cinema, embodiment, and the aesthetics of change / Eliza Steinbock.
- Author
- Steinbock, Eliza, 1980-
- Publication
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2019.
- ©2019
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- Description
- xiii, 231 pages : black and white illustrations; 23 cm
- Summary
- Traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthe'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. The author 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." The author 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, the author not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies aepistemologiesies as emergent, affective, and processual.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 199-217) and index.
- Contents
- Preface : Call me they -- Introduction : disjunction and conjunction : thinking trans through cinema -- Shimmering phantasmagoria : trans/cinema/aesthetics in an age of technological reproducibility -- Shimmering sex : docu-porn's trans-sexualities, confession culture, and suturing practices -- Shimmering multiplicity : trans*forms in Dandy Dust and I.K.U. from Dada to data to d@d@ -- Conclusion : an ensemble of shimmers.
- ISBN
- 9781478003243
- 1478003243
- 9781478003885
- 147800388X
- 9781478004509 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2018037349
- 99990517945
- 99980828624
- OCLC
- on1046461682
- 1046461682
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries