Distancing Representations in Transgender Film explores how cisgender films construct narratives and visuals to evoke emotions of ridicule, fear, disgust, and sympathy from a cisgender audience, leading to a distance between cisgender and transgender people and making it difficult for transgender people to participate in public life. It offers suggestions for improving transgender representation in film.

Format: Hardback
Length: 250 pages
Publication date: 01 February 2023
Publisher: State University of New York Press

Distancing Representations in Transgender Film explores the representation of transgender identity in several important cinema genres, including comedies, horror films, suspense thrillers, and dramas. In a critique that is both deeply personal and theoretically sophisticated, Lucy J. Miller examines how these representations are often narratively and visually constructed to prompt emotions of ridicule, fear, disgust, and sympathy from a cisgender audience. Created by and for cisgender people, these films do not accurately represent transgender people's experiences, and the emotions they inspire serve to distance cisgender audience members from the transgender people they encounter in their day-to-day lives. By helping to increase the distance between cisgender and transgender people, Miller argues, these films make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life. The book concludes with suggestions for improving transgender representation in film.

Distancing Representations in Transgender Film

Distancing Representations in Transgender Film explores the representation of transgender identity in several important cinema genres, including comedies, horror films, suspense thrillers, and dramas. In a critique that is both deeply personal and theoretically sophisticated, Lucy J. Miller examines how these representations are often narratively and visually constructed to prompt emotions of ridicule, fear, disgust, and sympathy from a cisgender audience. Created by and for cisgender people, these films do not accurately represent transgender people's experiences, and the emotions they inspire serve to distance cisgender audience members from the transgender people they encounter in their day-to-day lives. By helping to increase the distance between cisgender and transgender people, Miller argues, these films make it more difficult for cisgender people to understand the experiences of transgender people and for transgender people to fully participate in public life. The book concludes with suggestions for improving transgender representation in film.

Weight: 532g
Dimension: 159 x 237 x 22 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781438491998