{"product_id":"shimmering-images-trans-cinema-embodiment-and-the-aesthetics-of-change","title":"Shimmering Images","description":"In \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.","brand":"Duke University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54214554779992,"sku":null,"price":25.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781478003885_a76c0230-0b38-49e4-9769-361d9705ba1e.jpg?v=1779426970","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/shimmering-images-trans-cinema-embodiment-and-the-aesthetics-of-change","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}