Towards a polycentric cinema : freeing trans films from transphobia.

• Main Author: Chen, Shanghao.
• Other Authors: Brian Keith Bergen-Aurand
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: DRNTU::Humanities
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/48797
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Cinema has often been praised for its ability to represent a myriad of gender subjectivities, and in turn, questioning the hegemonic social order affecting gender and sexuality. However, transgender films, specifically from Europe and America, are often productions of heterosexual transphobia, and h...