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...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...

...RL Goldberg Abstract This article considers the ways in which pedagogy is formally represented in trans masculine porn, specifically in three films that stage scenes of learning: Linda/Les and Annie: A Female-to-Male Transsexual Love Story , Phineas Slipped , and Sex Education . Focusing...

...Matt Richardson Abstract This article puts forward a consideration of Black womanhood by looking at the softcore films starring African American trans model and actress, Ajita Wilson. Wilson starred in many European softcore and hardcore films from the 1970s until her death in 1987. The author...

...LaVelle Ridley Abstract In this article the author focuses on Mya Taylor's singing performance as Alexandra in the 2015 comedy-drama film Tangerine as a performative index of black trans women's futures. Contextualizing her performance within the larger, dangerous world for most black trans sex...

..., especially in a society in which trans* lives are under attack. Through close formal analysis, this article shows how the 1997 film Ma vie en rose accomplishes this project by cinematically aligning film spectators with a transgender child's audiovisual perception. Ma vie en rose immerses the film spectator...

...Annie Sansonetti Abstract In this article, the author visits filmmaker Wu Tsang's 2015 short film Girl Talk at the New Museum in New York. The film's documentation of a dance, the author's fieldwork in the museum, and Tsang's cinematography evidence how feminine boyhood and trans girlhood...

...Figure 11. Photo from the first Call Her Ganda brain trust, which took place in New York City, following the premiere of the film at the Tribeca Film Festival in April 2018. Director PJ Raval appears in the center of the first row. I am behind him. ...

...Chris Hall Abstract This essay responds to and expands the concept of the X for trans studies, theorized by Marquis Bey, as a graphic tool for thinking the intersection of gender, race, law, and crime. In doing so, the essay reads Howard Hawks's 1932 film Scarface , a work crossed throughout...

...Akkadia Ford Abstract The representation of transgender lives on film is of increasing thematic concern within both mainstream and independent cinema. The ways in which filmmakers represent and depict trans* people communicate to audiences certain views about transgender lives and concerns...

... , a film about Ladlad's unsuccessful bid to win congressional seats during the 2013 elections, and Die Beautiful , a film about the travails of a transgender beauty queen who dies soon after she wins a nationally televised gay beauty pageant, the author gleans examples of transgender resistance that do...

... of the film's dreaming form that provides the formal texture to read transgender in the film. Moreover, this essay pulls at the sutures that bind dream worlds together, not to reveal its hidden content but to show how dreams touch—and how they might touch the domains of transgender inquiry. Copyright © 2018...

...Salvador Vidal‐Ortiz Abstract This essay places in context Todas las flores , a film by the Puerto Rican filmmaker Carmen Oquendo‐Villar. As an illustration of the Santa Fe neighborhood in Bogotá, Colombia, a bar/hostel called Tabaco y Ron, as well as trans elders and leaders of the community...

... ballroom scene, such as the 1982 film T.V. Transvestite , this article reminds the reader that Black trans studies remains an archeological project. [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 house/ball culture archives Black trans studies Ima read . Throwing...

..., and a document by E. K. Stimson (ca. 1885) narrativizing Lulu's life up until the age of thirty, this article employs film theory as well as queer and transgender historiography to develop two interconnecting arguments: first, the aerial apparatus during the late nineteenth century is a critical tool...

... Clare's “Meditations on Natural Worlds, Disabled Politics, and a Politics of Cure,” the author elucidates parallels and divergences between environmental restoration and health restoration/cure culture. In Land (2011), an animated film created by Puerto Rican artist Lares Feliciano, genderqueer and trans...

...Helen Hok-Sze Leung Abstract This article examines the role of audiovisual translation in the cinematic circulation of trans knowledge. Through a case study of the Cantonese-dubbed version of the Thai-language film The Iron Ladies in Hong Kong, the article analyzes a regional production of trans...

...Nicole Seymour Abstract This article considers the performances of “animal drag” that appear across the affiliated US media projects of Jackass (the television program and film franchise) and Wildboyz (the television program). Drawing on transgender studies scholarship, as well as recent work...