Pomiędzy cierpieniem a trywializacją: cielesność trans i jej filmowe reprezentacje
Between suffering and trivialization: trans corporeality and its cinematic representations

Summary/Abstract: The article is centered around the peculiarity of trans experience and corporeality. Starting off with the definition of trans identity and its entanglement into gender and sexual norms, the author shows that it defies strict categorizations and is more about an-ongoing negotiation of senses and meanings. Instead of referring to the everyday life of queer subcultures and transgender communities though, risking the accusation of deploying an ethnographic, fetishizing look, the Author focuses on interpretation of cultural representations of trans individuals that could be found in modern American cinema. Offering comparative analysis of two pictures: Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Transamerica, the author critically reads specific narrative plots and devices that create the cultural image of trans characters, putting emphasis on their oppressive, stereotypical, but also emancipating potential.

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