Transgender On Screen

by John Phillips

This is an exploration of the cultural representations of transvestism and transsexuality in modern screen media against a historical background. Focussing on a dozen mainstream films and on shemale Internet pornography, this fascinating study demonstrates the interdependency of our perceptions of transgender and its culturally constructed images.

204 pages, Paperback

First published July 10, 2006

Reviews

[skye:)]

epq research!

[Thomas Breen]

A useful introduction to different representations of transvestites and transgender people in American film in the latter half of the 20th century, with a particular focus on the way that trans people disrupt conventional binary notions of gender, sex, and sexuality. This book is heavy on psychoanalytic theory and gender studies academese... but the core ideas are clear, compelling, and engaging.

[Corina Wieser-Cox]

Not worth the read tbh. Very dated and Eurocentric.