{"product_id":"shimmering-images-trans-cinema-embodiment-and-the-aesthetics-of-change-9781478003885","title":"Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Eliza Steinbock\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Duke University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Film - History \u0026amp; Criticism\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eShimmering Images\u003c\/i\u003e Eliza Steinbock traces how cinema offers alternative ways to understand gender transitions through a specific aesthetics of change. Drawing on Barthes's idea of the \"shimmer\" and Foucault's notion of sex as a mirage, the author shows how sex and gender can appear mirage-like on film, an effect they label shimmering. Steinbock applies the concept of shimmering--which delineates change in its emergent form as well as the qualities of transforming bodies, images, and affects--to analyses of films that span time and genre. These include examinations of the fantastic and phantasmagorical shimmerings of sex change in Georges Méliès's nineteenth-century trick films and Lili Elbe's 1931 autobiographical writings and photomontage in \u003ci\u003eMan into Woman\u003c\/i\u003e. Steinbock also explores more recent documentaries, science fiction, and pornographic and experimental films. Presenting a cinematic philosophy of transgender embodiment that demonstrates how shimmering images mediate transitioning, Steinbock not only offers a corrective to the gender binary orientation of feminist film theory; they open up new means to understand trans ontologies and epistemologies as emergent, affective, and processual.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45036513230999,"sku":"9781478003885","price":2106.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781478003885.webp?v=1769213456","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/shimmering-images-trans-cinema-embodiment-and-the-aesthetics-of-change-9781478003885","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}