.... Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 queer trans experimental film narrative kinships If failure can be measured in rejection letters, my film Thick Relations is a failure. I am used to being rejected from top-tier mainstream film festivals; it is a familiar routine. I was not...

...Helen Hok-Sze Leung Abstract This article reviews the recent trans programming of the Vancouver Queer Film Festival and offers thoughts on the festival's history of trans inclusion and its impact on a “festival public.” Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 film festivals LGBT...

... fields; and some map the productive tensions between trans studies and other interdisciplines. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press 2014 This deceptively simple question has provoked heated discussion among festival programmers, film critics, and even filmmakers. Is a trans film one that...

... Food and Drug Administration (FDA). After inadequate prior testing, human trials of AZT were approved, positioning humans as experimental specimens for both the FDA and Barrow Wilkem in the film, a thinly fictionalized name for Burroughs Wellcome, the actual company that manufactured AZT in 1985. In...

... experimental short film, Mekong Hotel (2012). However, not only is the indistinction between reality and fantasy eroded through the inclusion of the supernatural and the extraordinary, but Apichatpong's films also have a way of rendering the ordinary uncanny and magical through cinematic form, such as the...

... is drawn. In film, dance, and visual and relational performance, the artists contest conventional social constructions of transgender and articulate existential possibility in ways that contribute to and echo the development of new ideas about embodiment. Copyright © 2014 by Duke University Press...

... of the film The Danish Girl ( 2015 ) gives one pause. It's a sad film, after all—what good could come, then, in offering said reading, a reading to make sadness grow? What purpose could this serve? These questions do give me pause. I notice, however, that they also participate in the very logic...

... from the press—and also from immigration services—which has devastating consequences for some of the bar regulars and leads the splintered community to question and renegotiate its shared identity. The film is stylistically experimental, blending documentary with magical-realist techniques to create a...

... reject bottomhood as exploitation with the playful and ironic works of experimental queer Asian video artists, including those by the author himself, that try to mine those exploitative images for pleasures and agency. The book is written with nuance and theoretical sophistication, in a clear and...

...” focuses on the cross-historical and transnational adaptations of one of the most popular Chinese tales about metamorphosis, the “Legend of the White Snake.” Examining salient examples from Ming-dynasty literature to 1990s novels, films, and TV series, Wong argues that a vexed relationship obtains between...

... biopolitical genealogies of transgender and homosexuality alike. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 sexology Magnus Hirschfeld Eugen Steinach intersex sexual inversion Tom Hooper's film The Danish Girl (2015) ends with the death of its heroine, Lili, after complications from an...

... familiar concept. Contributors to these collections consider transgender representation in narrative, experimental, and documentary film and literary texts. Darren Waldron offers an insightful reading of Celine Sciamma's 2011 feature film Tomboy , admiring the director's departure from the...

... experimentation that did not exist when the series debuted with nine queens, used transphobic slurs with cavalier disregard, and offered only $25,000 in prize money. Most recently and significantly, Kim Chi and “hybrid” queen Acid Betty appeared on season 8. Despite the specter of self-censorship, the presence of...

... the burlesque dancer know, to produce culture is to demand an audience. The externalization of experience in the form of a film, a dance, an artwork, a poem, or a video calls for an array of viewers and readers—likewise, the artful deployment of an ensemble number, a comic anecdote, or an erotic...

... character Molina from his 1976 novel The Kiss of the Spider Woman , whose transgender identification takes shape by appropriating lines from the performances of female Hollywood film stars, much as Puig himself also did to some extent in his impersonations and literary depictions of Rita Hayworth. One of...

.... And VKC dogs tangle well: Sau, Fenstalker, and I are all now entangled as distributed modes of embodiment. Copyright © 2015 by Duke University Press 2015 trans virtual worlds attunement embodiment Note on form: This essay is experimental both in terms of theorizing the speciated...

... poetics is defined by its ends (the creation of language for modes of self and being for which there is no language) rather than by the poetic means used to achieve those ends. While some trans poets pioneer experimental techniques to represent trans identity, many, like Bendorf, find ample means at hand...

... classicist (Gabriel), a modern linguist (Leino), a film scholar (Leung), literary comparatists (Concilio, Heinrich, Larkosh), a sociologist (Einarsdóttir), poets and fiction writers (Nathanaël, Dowd), a religious studies scholar (Strassfeld), and translation studies specialists (Baer, Almarri). These critics...

... sense of peace, that I feel from estrogen. While I once thought taking hormones was a good experiment an ethico-aesthetic experimental life act in the spirit of Deleuze and Guattari, now I realize what a masculinist, colonialist dream that was, and I don't like that old self of...

... rest of the second installation, which included Mexican Los Angeles–based experimental vocalist Carmina Escobar and videos by Amapola Prada, Joiri Minaya, Xandra Ibarra and Rob Fatal, Julie Tolentino and Abigail Severance, and Mickey Negron. The third and fourth part of the program will feature...