Transgender Cinema

OUTLINE

1. INTRODUCTION
   • Exploring the concepts of transgenderism in film
   • The difficulties of differentiating drag queens, transvestites, transsexuals and other TG groups in film
   • Pre-cinema TG performances; from ancient times to Shakespeare; the edict of Charles II; the rise of vaudeville
2. SILENTLY TG
   • Early cinema's portrayal of TG concepts
   • Actors/actresses playing characters of the opposite gender
   • Crossdressing comedy - the extension of vaudeville into cinema
3. CD COMEDY
   • Straight men wearing women's clothes for comic effect
   • Attempting to address gay/TG issues in the days of the Hayes code
4. POST SRS
   • After transsexualism becomes national news in the '50s, a series of overly earnest docudramas emerge
5. IT'S A DRAG
   • The rise of the drag queen
   • Gay cinema and the transgendered
6. WILD CINE
   • "Shock" directors such as John Waters, Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey increasingly use TG themes/actors in film
7. THE TG VILLAIN
   • The villification of the transgendered
   • Use of crossdressing to signify a "disturbed" mindset
   • Parallels to the handling of homosexual issues in film
8. TG TV
   • From Bosom Buddies and All That Glitters to Coronation Street and The Education of Max Bickford
   • Trash talk shows
   • Sweeps month: a flood of TG themes
9. FOREIGN TG
   • Foreign approaches to TG cinema
10. TRIFLES
    • The perserverance of the quick cross-dressing joke
    • Surprise! The joke of revelation
    • Supporting TG characters, and why they always seem to die
    • Gender swapping
    • The lack of TG actors
11. NEW CINE
    • The late '90s, and a new approach to TG cinema
    • FtMs in the movies
    • Documentaries and Short Films
    • TrannyFest and other Transgendered Film Festivals
    • A coming change...or more of the same

LISTING OF TRANSGENDER RELATED FILMS

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