Transgender On Screen

Transgender on Screen explores the cultural representations of transvestism andtranssexuality in modern screen media film and Internet against an essentialhisto... » 

Transgender on Screen explores the cultural representations of transvestism andtranssexuality in modern screen media film and Internet against an essentialhistorical background. Focussing on a dozen mainstream feature films and onshemale Internet pornography this fascinating and original study demonstratesthe interdependency of our perceptions of transgender and its culturallyconstructed images. Relying on psychoanalytic queer and postmodern theoriesthe author considers the influence of these representations in the context ofan increasingly problematic distinction between the worlds of the imaginationand reality. «