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.

About the author

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.

Product details

• Authors: Lucy J. Miller, Miller Lucy J.
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.02.2023
• EAN: 9781438491998
• ISBN: 978-1-4384-9199-8
• No. of pages: 250
• Series: SUNY series, Horizons of Cinema
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Photography, film, video, TV; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies, PERFORMING ARTS / Film / History & Criticism, Gender studies, gender groups, Film Theory & Criticism, Relating to Trans / Transgender people or gender minorities, SOCIAL SCIENCE / LGBTQ+ Studies / Transgender Studies, Film history, theory or criticism, Gender studies: transgender & intersex