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Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change

Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change


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In Shimmering Images Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes'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. Steinbock 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. Steinbock 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, Steinbock not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies and epistemologies as emergent, affective, and processual.

Table of Contents:
Preface. Call Me They  vii Acknowledgments  xi Introduction. Disjunction and Conjunction: Thinking Trans through the Cinematic  1 1. Shimmering Phantasmagoria: Trans/Cinema/Aesthetics in an Age of Technological Reproducibility  26 2. Shimmering Sex: Docu-Porn's Trans-Sexualities, Confession Culture, and Suturing Practices  61 3. Shimmering Multiplicity: Trans*Forms in Dandy Dust and I.K.U. from Dada to Data to D@D@  107 Conclusion. An Ensemble of Shimmers  145 Notes  157 Bibliography  199 Index  219

About the Author :
Eliza Steinbock is Professor and Chair of Transgender Studies, Art and Cultural Activism in the Department of Literature and Art, Maastricht University.

Review :
"The greatest achievement of Shimmering Images is Steinbock’s contestation of the status of the 'visible,' and of the attendant concepts expressed in the hegemonic Enlightenment insistence that to see something is to know it: 'visuality,' 'recognition,' 'knowledge,' and 'objectivity.'. . . . Steinbock leaves the reader with new tools for examining trans embodiment with(in) cinema." - Elizabeth Berman (Feral Feminisms) "Shimmering Images is often exquisitely poetic, evoking Roland Barthes's work as it describes the author's passionate investigation of media, mediation, and embodiment.… Steinbock's concept of shimmering images expresses how we thrill to certain mediated moments not in spite of, but because of, who we are and who we are becoming-in dialogue with the media that we encounter, that we seek out, and that shimmers in our lives."  - Nicole Morse (Critical Inquiry) "Whether you are a cinephile, transgender studies scholar, or simply curious, Shimmering Images comes highly recommended to readers from a wide array of backgrounds." - Eva Theunissen (Tijdschrift voor Genderstudies) “Shimmering Images contains a rich and topical cultural analysis extending across time and across genres that is underpinned by a commitment to interdisciplinary research that will undoubtedly be of value for scholars and students in film studies, transgender studies, feminist theory, cultural studies, and queer theory.” - Lieke Hettinga (Screen Bodies) "Offering insight into how systemic cruelty is mediated by culturally determined epistemes, Shimmering Images provides a practical framework for how we can interface with these systems, as trans people and trans-lovers, in potentially resistant or subversive ways." - Isaac Preiss (TSQ) "Tracing a history of trans cinema, Steinbock pays special attention to the cutting, suturing, editing, and projecting of desire. The concept of the shimmer is elusive and evasive, just as trans-inter-queer ontologies are notoriously difficult to pin down and define in any concrete, definite way. Steinbock provides a method of understanding these ontologies which embrace this promiscuity, and which allows for meaningful analyses and understandings in trans and queer studies." - Eli Anderson (Feminist Formations)


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  • ISBN-13: 9781478003243
  • Publisher: Duke University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Sub Title: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1478003243
  • Publisher Date: 22 Mar 2019
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • No of Pages: 277
  • Weight: 544 gr


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