Lana and Lilly Wachowski

Cael M. Keegan (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

196 Seiten

2018
University of Illinois Press (Verlag)
9780252083839 (ISBN)

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Lana and Lilly Wachowski have redefined the technically and topically possible while joyfully defying audience expectations. Visionary films like The Matrix trilogy and Cloud Atlas have made them the world's most influential transgender media producers, and their coming out retroactively put trans* aesthetics at the very center of popular American culture. CÁel M. Keegan views the Wachowskis' films as an approach to trans* experience that maps a transgender journey and the promise we might learn "to sense beyond the limits of the given world." Keegan reveals how the filmmakers take up the relationship between identity and coding (be it computers or genes), inheritance and belonging, and how transgender becoming connects to a utopian vision of a post-racial order. Along the way, he theorizes a trans* aesthetic that explores the plasticity of cinema to create new social worlds, new temporalities, and new sensory inputs and outputs. Film comes to disrupt, rearrange, and evolve the cinematic exchange with the senses in the same manner that trans* disrupts, rearranges, and evolves discrete genders and sexes.

CÁel M. Keegan is an assistant professor of women, gender, and sexuality studies and liberal studies at Grand Valley State University.

Erscheinungsdatum	02.11.2018
Reihe/Serie	Contemporary Film Directors
Zusatzinfo	27 black & white photographs
Verlagsort	Baltimore
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 210 mm
Gewicht	286 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-13	9780252083839 / 9780252083839
Zustand	Neuware