Shimmering Images by Eliza Steinbock (Paperback Book)

Name: Shimmering Images by Eliza Steinbock (Paperback Book)
Brand: Duke University Press

Duke University Press

In Shimmering Images 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 \u201Cshimmer\u201D 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 M\u00C9li\u00C8s's nineteenth-century trick films and Lili Elbe's 1931 autobiographical writings and photomontage in Man into Woman. Steinbock also explores more\n\nShimmering Images\nTrans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change\nFree UK delivery on this item.\n\nThis brand new item is available with free UK delivery using Royal M;