Lucy J. Miller 
Distancing Representations in Transgender Film [EPUB ebook] 
Identification, Affect, and the Audience

Distancing Representations in Transgender Film explores the representation of transgender identity in several important cinema genres: 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.

Table des matières

Acknowledgments

Introduction



1. My Transgender Experience with Film and Other Media



2. Ridicule in Transgender Comedies



3. Fear in Transgender Horror Films




photo gallery



4. Disgust in Transgender Thrillers



5. Sympathy in Transgender Dramas



6. Improving Transgender Representation in Film



Notes

Bibliography

Index

A propos de l’auteur

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.