Debating Authenticity

Authorship, Aesthetics and Embodiment in Trans Media

Paige Macintosh (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

240 Seiten

2025
Edinburgh University Press (Verlag)
978-1-3995-4012-4 (ISBN)

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Analyses emerging trans-authored media—both content and paratexts—to deconstruct authenticity claims and foreground trans embodiment.

Debating Authenticity merges phenomenology, paratextual analysis, genre studies, cultural theory, and trans scholarship to investigate emerging debates regarding trans media’s authorship, authenticity, and aesthetics across the first two decades of the twenty-first century. By questioning how trans people, both on-and offscreen, are deployed within mainstream cultural industries as representatives of political and cultural progressiveness Paige Macintosh interrogates consultancy roles and their authorship status. Building on trans scholars’ new attention to trans aesthetics, they also consider how scholars might productively counter the charged debates currently informing trans media scholarship by reconsidering the categorisation of trans media and beginning to reroute the power of canonisation from cis industry elites to trans viewers. Looking to genre studies – particularly the intersections of gothic horror, science fiction, and spectacle-driven genres like the musical or melodrama – Macintosh outlines their own variation of trans aesthetics, one that is capable of countering trans cinemas melancholic tendencies.

Paige Macintosh is a trans media scholar based in Aotearoa New Zealand. They completed their doctorate in Film Studies at Te Herenga Waka – University of Wellington in 2023. Previous work published in Global Storytelling and The New Review of Film and Television Studies demonstrates an ongoing interest in merging industrial, paratextual and textual analysis, while more recent scholarship is attentive to evocations of trans embodiment in genre filmmaking, particularly science fiction body horror. They currently serve as a steering committee member for Te Herenga Waka’s Rainbow Research Network.

List of Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Prelude: A Message From the Cover Artist

Part I. Introduction

Introduction: Critical Contexts

Part II. Credibility, Cultural Capital and Contemporary Trans Films on the Festival Circuit

1. Trans Cinema’s Cultural Value on the International Film Festival Circuit

2. Performing Authenticity: A Fantastic Woman as a Breakthrough Text

3. Festival Credibility: Trans Consultants and Lukas Dhont’s Girl

4. Activism, Authenticity and Authorship in Rhys Ernst’s Adam

Part III. Trans Branding in the Multi-platform Era

5. Emerging Trans Content and its Cultural Value in the Multi-platform Era

6. Ryan Murphy, Janet Mock and the Cultural Legitimacy of Pose

7. Transgressive TV: Euphoria, HBO and a New Trans Aesthetic

Part IV. Towards a Trans Aesthetic

8. Generic Hybridity and Haptic Imagery in Jupiter Ascending

9. Pursuing Genetic Perfection: Trans Embodiment in Repo! the Genetic Opera

10. Trans Utopia in Steven Universe

Part V. Conclusion

Conclusion: Joyful Resistance

Bibliography

Filmography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	19.07.2025
Zusatzinfo	15 black and white images
Verlagsort	Edinburgh
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-3995-4012-2 / 1399540122
ISBN-13	978-1-3995-4012-4 / 9781399540124
Zustand	Neuware