Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by Willow Maclay & Caden Gardner Groundswell Speaker 2024 Decidedly absurd

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Corpses, Fools and Monsters: The History and Future of Transness in Cinema by Willow Maclay & Caden Gardner Groundswell Speaker 2024 Decidedly absurdIn the history of cinema, trans people are usually murdered, made into a joke, or viewed as threats to the normal order relegated to a lost highway of corpses, fools, and monsters. In this book, trans film critics Caden Mark Gardner and Willow Catelyn Maclay take the reader on a drive down this lost highway, exploring the way that trans people and transness have evolved on screen. Starting from the very earliest representations of transness in silent