CORPSES, FOOLS AND MOSTERS: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF TRANSNESS IN CINEMA

In the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters. In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down this lost highway, exploring the way that trans people and transness have evolved on-screen. Starting from the very earliest representations of transness in silent film, through to the multiplex-conquering Matrix franchise and on to the emergence o...[Read more]