1st Edition
Trans Representations in Contemporary, Popular Cinema The Transgender Tipping Point
Introduction: Transing Genres; 1: Film Musicals; 2: Heritage Cinema; 3: Road Movies; 4: Melodrama; 5: Coming of Age Dramas; 6: Romance; Conclusion: Gender Critical Feminism
Biography
Niall Richardson convenes MA Gender and Media at the University of Sussex. He is the author of the monographs The Queer Cinema of Derek Jarman: Critical and Cultural Readings (2009), Transgressive Bodies: Representations in Film and Popular Culture (2010) and Ageing Femininity on Screen: The Older Woman in Contemporary Cinema (2019). His research focuses on the representation of minority groups in film and media – especially how these intersect with gender and sexuality.
Frances Smith is a senior lecturer in film at the University of Sussex. She is the author of Rethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie: Genre, Gender and Identity (2017); Bande de Filles: Girlhood Identities in Contemporary France (2020); and, with Timothy Shary, is co-editor of Refocus: The Films of John Hughes (2021) and Refocus: The Films of Amy Heckerling (2016). Her research focuses on contemporary US and European youth cinemas.
